Quotes About Introspect

When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

Yes books are valuable. But no 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).

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think.

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

But when did you ever undertake a voyage for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid of any of them that proved unsound?

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).

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

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'm not any kind of social reformer.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

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

If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I describe myself as a human being.

When I reflect on my companions' inner natures I usually wish I controlled one small talent. I wish I could look inside them and unmask the darks and brights that move them. Then I take a quick look into the jungle of my own soul and thank heaven that I cannot. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

I talk too much.