Quotes About Introspect

The reason people get lost in thought is that it's unfamiliar territory.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

It is the internal force - this intimate interrupter - whose tracks I would follow. the world sheds, in the energetic way of an open and communal place, its many greetings, as a world should. What quarrel can there be with that? But that the self can interrupt the self - and does - is a darker and more curious matter.

I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.

This god, this one word: I.

It is important here to remember that the only direct, introspective knowledge of man anyone possesses is of himself.

Your ego is your strictest judge.

Do all the people who know me know me better than I know myself?

Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

Can you look at yourself almost as though you were someone else?

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius

was] a stranger to himself.

The Devil's Dictionary, the mind has nothing but itself to know itself with, and it may never feel satisfied that it understands the deepest aspect of its own existence, its intrinsic subjectivity.

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

Happiness in myself makes me apprehensive.

I'm big on watching film, and sometimes it hurts myself because I over-calculate things, or I overthink sometimes.

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

One of the greatest Reasons why so few People understand themselves, is, that most Writers are always teaching Men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.

except unlike you I don't have any disturbing psychological problems, Dom that's because you haven't dug deep enough to find them

had to look back before you moved forward.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.

Analízate bien: ¿has tenido algún sentimiento que haya desaparecido? No, todo permanece, ¿verdad?, todo. Las momias que tenemos en el corazón nunca se vuelven polvo y, cuando asomamos la cabeza por el tragaluz, las vemos abajo, inmóviles, mirándonos con sus ojos abiertos.