Quotes About Introspect

Soren Kierkegaard

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself

Règle d'or : laisser une image incomplète de soi...

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

Am devenit propriul meu elev.Nu po?i nega la infinit.La ce bun s? ponegre?ti universul?Nu m? pot converti la nimic ?i totu?i nu-mi consider via?a un e?ec.

Each being is a broken hymn

a golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.

I do recognize and I feel very comfortable with people taking a good look at how I've lived my life, and obviously my faith is a big part of that.

I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

The things that come out of a man are they that defile him, and to get rid of them a man must go into himself, be a convict, and scrub the floor of his cell.

Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened up to you at once; only ore, most likely, that needs much smelting and refining; or it may be, not gold at all, but a metal which your mental alchemy may turn into gold.

It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to himself, will he confess what he may have long all but known.

Like all man who have lived much alone, he adjusted himself better to ideas than to people.

Chacun pourrait intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

Chacun pourrait s'intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

Hayat? tan?mak yerine kendimden ÅŸüphe etmeyi öÄŸrendim.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, George W.; 2005).

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, 2005).