Quotes About Introspection

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.