Quotes about Introspection

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.

there's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Who knows that about anybody?

That is a rare and blessed lot which some greatest men have not attained, to know ourselves guiltless before a condemning crowd -- to be sure that what we are denounced for is solely the good in us.

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dullness of our own jokes.

There was no reason why I should go anywhere. The world about me seemed like a vision that was hurrying by while I stood still with my pain.