Quotes about Introspection

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.

Her body was growing old, but inside she still kept intact the adolescent she once was.