Quotes About Introspection

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.

And we need to know what it is to be human, if we are to avoid becoming narcissists.

Diaries teach us that it is too much to be inside anybody's head. It is a horrible place. All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.

A person can write five million words about itself, and forget to tell you its name. Or its sex. People don't include obvious identifiers in diaries: things such as what they're called or where their home is. They are simply 'I' who lives.

It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.

let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

The proper study of Mankind is Man