Quotes About Introspective

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

My world is kind of small.

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk.

I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

I spend so much time thinking and I don't generally have strong emotional reactions too much.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...

I have my own laws and my own court to judge me, and I refer to these rather than elsewhere.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my own governing method, ignorance.

Sou sociável ao excesso. Por isso me parece razoável subtrair da vista das pessoas a minha importunidade para incubá-la sozinho, e encolher-me e recolher-me em minha carapaça, como as tartarugas. Aprendo a ver os homens sem a eles me agarrar: isso seria um ultraje quando o passo é tão cambaleante.

does know himself never considers external things to be his;

it is myself I paint. My

Pero después llega un momento en el que estás frente al espejo y te preguntas: ¿esto soy yo? ¿y por qué? ¿por qué me he solidarizado con esto? ¿y a mi qué me importa este rostro? Y en ese momento todo empieza a hundirse. Todo empieza a hundirse.

PÃ…â"¢i?emž musím Ã…â"¢íci, že jsem tu nepodobnost mÄ›l na Kostkovi rád a že jsem s ním právÄ› proto s oblibou debatoval, protože jsem si tak vždycky mohl zb?žne znovu ozÃ…â"¢ejmit, kdo vlastnÄ› já sám jsem a co si myslím.

Zelfkritiek betekent de onderwerping van de aangeklaagde aan de aanklager.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there … is … no … key.

of himself, inscribed as follows: "To