Quotes about Introspection
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
This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
— Steve Jobs
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
— Marianne Williamson