Quotes About Introspection

See? I am here. Why? Because I wanted to see, to know, to understand. I wanted to go beyond the Great River. I wanted to go beyond the plains. I want even to go beyond these mountains where we now are. I think I am in this world to find beauty in lonely places. At least, that is what I wish to think.

thinking of his own. How did a

Still, a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.

We who walk the woodland paths know that although all men look, not many see.

This is a different world, Helen. You knew that, I could see it. Sometimes when there is nothing between you and nature you find out things you wish you didn't know…sometimes when you look at yourself you are smaller in the scheme of things than you thought you were." I shifted

confused begging of some philosophical question

organized study deadens the mind, and that genuine insight arises spontaneously from the individual soul.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.

Is your last name your first name backward? Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night?

It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

Okay, class, said Mrs Jewls, So that we have no more mix-ups, I want everybody to write his name on his pencil. Dameon spent the rest of the day trying to write his name on his pencil. Dameon's pencil couldn't write on itself. It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

I once had a teacher who told me I'd be twice as smart if I was half as smart as I thought I was. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

I wasn't quite sure what I'd just seen, but I knew it was time for me to leave.

If I were accountable for every passing thought I had, I'd be in deep trouble.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.