Quotes About Introspection

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.