Quotes About Introspection

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.