Quotes about Introspection
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
— Confucius
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
— CS Lewis
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
— Winston Churchill
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
— John Calvin
All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
— Mother Teresa
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
— Khalil Gibran
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
— Paul David Tripp
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
— Thomas Merton
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
— Teresa of Avila
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
— William Hazlitt
soul survivor," someone who's willing to open up and examine the pain in order to lance the wound and perforate the power of the past.
— Bishop TD Jakes