Quotes About Introspection

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.