Quotes about Introspection

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see whom he resembles.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actuallly doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

Go into the desert not to escape other men but in order to find them in God.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Blaming others wouldn't do. Only when I began to see the world's ills mirrored in myself did I begin to find an answer; only as I began to address that uncomfortable word, sin, did I see that I was not being handed a load of needless guilt so much as a useful tool for confronting the negative side of human behavior.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them