Quotes About Introspection

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you're doing right back at you.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.