Quotes About Introspect

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

De la misma forma que uno puede ver su aspecto mirándose en un espejo, observando sus pensamientos puede contemplar su esencia.

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Se regarder scrupuleusement soi-même, ne regarder que discrètement les autres.

Do you think you can learn all there is to know about yourself from yourself?

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is somethin I dont want to be wrong about.

As if any man really knew aught of my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

leary timothy iii

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us all perhaps; or something he put there himself, creating it over time and unwittingly just as he created his face, his life, the stories he lived by, the ones that let him go on living.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.