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Quotes About Introspection

What you are is a question only you can answer.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.
~ David Lynch
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
~ Socrates
I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.
~ Quentin Bryce
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
~ Albert Einstein
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
~ Sylvia Plath
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
~ Ramona Koval
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato
You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.
~ Jane Levy
I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.
~ Daniel Powter
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
~ Erykah Badu
The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.
~ Frederick Lenz
We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
~ Jessica Simpson
I know nothing, so I study.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita