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Quotes About Introspection

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
~ Francis Bacon
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
~ William C. Brown
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
~ Tori Amos
I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.
~ Melanie Lynskey
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
~ F. Sionil Jose
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
~ Mary McCarthy
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
~ Lionel Shriver
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
~ Francis Bacon
At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.
~ Russell Simmons
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
~ Dana Snyder
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.
~ Herbie Hancock
I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
~ Noomi Rapace
I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.
~ John Spencer
Trying to be more than human one becomes less.
~ Marty Rubin
I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity
~ Avinash Advani
'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
I think pimp, therefore i am.
~ Katt Williams
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
~ George Carlin
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
~ Pope John XXIII
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
~ Charlie Chaplin
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
~ Dorothy Parker