Quotes About Introspection

he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.

He sought refuge in his books

He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

On the whole, he seems to have used the notebook, and the quiet hours of recording, as a way of conversing with himself – a means of clarification of his own thoughts.

Be slow to label others as assholes, be quick to label yourself as one.

Tuon looked at him, squatting there by the map, moving his fingers over its surface, and suddenly she saw him in a new light. A buffoon? No. A lion stuffed into a horse-stall might look like a peculiar joke, but a lion on the high plains was something very different. Toy was loose on the high plains, now. She felt a chill. What sort of man had she entangled herself with? After all this time, she realized, she had hardly a clue.

Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that "everyone knew" deserved close examination. Being

Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.

A young man chases shadows and runs from moonlight, and in the end he stabs himself in the foot with his own spear.

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

Trust no-one, he thought bleakly. For an instant, he did not know if it was his thought or Lous-Therin's, but in the end he decided it did not matter. Everybody had their own goals, their own desires. Much the best to trust no-one completely except himself. Yet he wondered, with another man oozing through the back of his mind, how far he could trust himself.

Lan had begun an intense study of the contents of his pipe's bowl.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman," Bashere said to the air, "but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

It seems to me that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who. Most could do with someone whose only job is to remind them that they eat and sweat and cry the same as any farmer.

I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse than I ever could. I

I was never much good at helping people with their problems." And worse with my own, he thought.

If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

If we let ourselves get lost in the shuffle of daily life, as we hurry along we end up knowing more about our shoes from looking down than about the stars—or life's unseen possibilities—from pausing for a few moments here and there to gaze upward and beyond … and adjust our course accordingly. My

Don't be so easy on yourself, it said.

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.

Reflection = Progress

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer