Quotes About Introspection

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude... ~ Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.

The question that sometime's drive's me hazy, am i or the other's crazy?

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy, am I or are the others crazy?

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Já não mais firmo uma opinião, um hábito ou um julgamento sobre outra pessoa. Testei o homem. É inconsistente.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.

Un om ar trebui s? caute ceea ce este, nu ceea ce crede c? ar trebui sa fie.