Quotes About Introspect

The Question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within

We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

does know himself never considers external things to be his;

Kendi kendimize düzen vermenin ne kadar güç olduÄŸunu biliriz.

PÃ…â"¢i?emž musím Ã…â"¢íci, že jsem tu nepodobnost mÄ›l na Kostkovi rád a že jsem s ním právÄ› proto s oblibou debatoval, protože jsem si tak vždycky mohl zb?žne znovu ozÃ…â"¢ejmit, kdo vlastnÄ› já sám jsem a co si myslím.

But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but all he could find was the reflection of himself bending over himself to peer into that self... Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

There was no himself in himself.

It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

I really judge me on me.

No one ever judges their own self.

Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

Man shies away from nothing as from a rendezvous with himself—which makes the entertainment industry what it is.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts!

but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.