Quotes About Introspection

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

You must become like yourself.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Not if I know myself at all.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

With knowledge comes more doubt.