Introspection Quotes
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Introspection Quotes & Sayings
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Introspection is always retrospection
— Jean-Paul Sartre
She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.
— David Halberstam
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
— Epictetus
Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.
— Soseki Natsume
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
— John D. MacDonald
A curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
— C. D. Broad
Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.
— James Thornton
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— C. G. Jung
I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
— Harmony Korine
The world is a palace without bedsheets
— Suchet Chaturvedi
How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.
— Justin Young
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
— Henry Adams
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke
... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
— Richard Baxter
The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.
— Hugh Downs
Introspection! I hate it!
— Ethel Kennedy
It is good for society to have this introspection.
— Jacques Verges
I don't live my life wondering how to live my life.
— Marty Rubin
Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.
— Sam Owen
Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.
— Sam Owen
Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
— Henry Rollins
My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates
— Socrates
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
— Naomi Judd
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
— Eudora Welty
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
— Brenda Lee
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
— William Godwin
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
— Pietro Belluschi
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
— Aldous Huxley
Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.
— Solange Nicole
Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection.
— Billy Graham
He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.
— Douglas Brinkley
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
You can't lie to your soul.
— Irvine Welsh
Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
— Joanie Connell
The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
— Philip K. Dick
Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex
— Virginia Morell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
— Lawrence Durrell
Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?"
"No sir."
"That bothers me. — Joe R. Lansdale
"No sir."
"That bothers me. — Joe R. Lansdale
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
— Madonna Ciccone
Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.
— Richard K. Morgan
Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.
— Thomas L. Friedman
'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
— Greg Rucka
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
— Ray Bradbury
Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
— Susan Cain
Judgmental heart has lack of introspection.
— Toba Beta
A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.
— M.B. Dallocchio
Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
— Soichiro Honda
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
— Willa Cather
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
A writer needs a life of introspection.
— Tom Robbins
Adversities provide opportunities for introspection.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
— Floriano Martins
Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
— David J. Greer
Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.
— Michele Jennae
Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? — Toba Beta
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? — Toba Beta
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus
An accusing heart couldn't see her own sins.
— Toba Beta
Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
— Randall Robinson
The journey towards your inner self is through Solitude!
— Farheen Viquas
What is reading but silent conversation.
— Walter Savage Landor
The only journey is the one within.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
By thinking of things you could understand them.
— James Joyce
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
— John Ruskin
The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.
— Kamal Ravikant
Who am I to judge me?
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
— Sara Baume
How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?
— Madeline Claire Franklin
When corruptors blame each other, the strongest wins.
Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang. — Toba Beta
Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang. — Toba Beta
Life is one large process of creation: Self-Examination and introspection is simply to figure out what you want to create in this moment.
— Matthew Donnelly
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
— Frederick Lenz
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
— Robert Frost
Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.
— Richard N. Bolles
With only adolescent introspection to light the way, each of us, hopelessly pubescent, alone and in secret, attempted to regulate
— Philip Roth
Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
— Kahlil Gibran