Quotes about Introspection
Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
— Jonathan Edwards
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
— Epicurus
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
— Epicurus
We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.
— Epicurus
One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.
— Eric Metaxas
One knows what is right, but holds it at arm's length for a time, neither throwing it out, nor embracing it.
— Eric Metaxas
But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.
— Eric Metaxas
At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others.
— Eric Metaxas
And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
— Benjamin Disraeli
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
— Winston Churchill