Quotes About Introspect

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ne te quaesiveris extra.

Dad, said Will, his voice very faint. Are you a good person? To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself- And, adding it all up...? The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I let myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Take Inventory

WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.

If you want to take your own measure, put aside your money, your estates, your honors, and look inside yourself. At present you are taking the word of others for what you are. Seneca, Epistles 80.10

Das Angenehme an meinem Grauen ist, dass sich meine Innenwelt mehr und mehr vor die Außenwelt schiebt und dass mich unter dem Eindruck dieser Verschiebung die Außenwelt immer weniger interessiert. Es durchflutet mich ein angenehmes Gefühl des Entkommenseins.

The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

He experienced one of those "self" moments, one of those moments when you suddenly turn around and look at yourself and think "Who am I? What am I up to? What have I achieved? Am I doing well?

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.

One must seek the truth within – not without.

What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

I can only know myself, if I can know anyone. I can only judge me.

When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.

o my mind, get me to meet me and then onwards, mind your own business.