Quotes About Introspection

I keep imagining that one of these days I'll grow up and become someone who knows what they're doing, but so far that hasn't happened.

Her reflection had hidden something from her. This, Valkyrie thought to herself, is probably not a good sign.

her," he said. "She stares. That's what she does

The only person with whom he'd interacted on any sort of deeper level was Valkyrie Cain – but he still had to work out if she was a good example of a functioning human being.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.