Quotes about Introspection

Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

So we need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.