Quotes about Introspection
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
— Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
— Samuel Johnson
Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.
— Samuel Rutherford
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.
— Thomas Merton
I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.
— George W. Bush
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
— Dick Cheney
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
— Samuel Johnson