Quotes About Introspection

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.