Quotes About Introspection

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

I've always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

Imagination is something you do alone.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.