Quotes about Introspection

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

In solitude you are least alone. — Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

I'm demonaic, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

As a young man, I had a strong faith in God. It dwindled and I pretty much abandoned it when I went to college. Basically, what I tell everybody is what took over my life was my pride.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.