Quotes About Introspection

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.