Quotes About Introspect

have time to take out your soul and look at it.

It must be exhausting to be in your head, Sam once told me. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Being alone is very difficult.

Non gli dispiaceva raccontare di sé, ma era spaventoso come l'evocazione dei ricordi servisse solo a rendere la sua esistenza sempre più ambigua e incerta. [...] la parte di ricordanze che aveva la funzione di controllo e di indagine non andava forse accumulandosi di nascosto come letame?" pp.1338-9, Yukio Mishima, Romanzi e Racconti, La casa di Kyoko, volume 1, i Meridiani

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Not if I know myself at all.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

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

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

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

My closest relation is myself.

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Pero con quien cavila mientras el resto no deja de parlotear, con esta persona soy cautelosa. Temo que sea una gran persona.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

if you shall seem to some to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

only judge your own thoughts, desires, and actions as good or evil.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.