Quotes About Introspection

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.