Quotes About Introspection

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.