Quotes About Introspective

I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin James Sadock

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

I was a reflective child.

I was a boring man but a reflective man.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.

I'm not the type who parties regularly. I'm happy sitting at home, cooling my heels.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.