Quotes About Introspection

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.