Quotes About Introspection

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

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Me mõistame end alati hukka selle pärast, mida ütleme, mitte selle pärast, mida teeme. Selle pärast, mida ütleme või mida ütleme end tegevat, mitte selle pärast, mida ütlevad teised või mida me tõesti teinud oleme.

No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las niñas, cuando ya no era niña y no hacía mucho que había regresado de su viaje de bodas, entró en el cuarto de baño, se puso frente al espejo, se abrió la blusa, se quitó el sostén y se buscó el corazón con la punta de la pistola de su propio padre [...]

supongo que fue la sensación de estar siendo doble sujeto o doble gË™e·bry¯d-guma al mismo tiempo —una sensación desasosegante— lo que me hizo pensar más lejos

Javier Marías