Quotes about Introspection
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
— Teresa of Avila
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
— Anonymous
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
— Epicurus
We are not certain, we are never certain.
— Albert Camus
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
— Heinrich Heine
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— Francis de Sales
I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."
— Arthur Schopenhauer