Quotes About Introspective

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.