Quotes About Introspection

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

Truth is within ourselves.

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

No, when the fight begins within himself,A man's worth something.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.