Quotes About Introspect

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism

Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

Emily Dickinson, one could be certain, didn't have silly friends. She didn't need them.

Don't think about Buddhist terminology; don't think about what the books say or anything like that. Just ask yourself simply, "How, at this moment, do I interpret myself?" That's all.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

No one knows themselves very well. Who has the time these days? Have you been formally introduced to yourself? Made the effort to get to know your faults and your strengths, sit yourself down to tea and listen to all your troubles, answered the call when yourself falters? Then how can you say you know yourself in the least?

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I go back into myself and find a whole world!

You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.

If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable.

It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

I just realized, there is too much of me in me.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.