Quotes About Introspection

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.