Quotes About Introspect

Sitting for an hour without reading material meant he had to think.

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Trust me but look to thyself.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Eu cautam o cale care sa ma duca inlauntrul unui om.

It's a sorry little fact that we are often as mysterious to ourselves as we are to others.

To write is to read one's own self

How often must we butt to head Mind to ass flank to nuts cock to elbow hip to toe soul to shoulder confront ourselves in our past.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

self-consciousness is the source of all our knowledge of mental things.

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.

I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.

appreciate your finer qualities

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.