Quotes about Introspection

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.