Quotes about Introspection
Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.
— LM Montgomery
if I wasn't ME who'd I be?
— LM Montgomery
What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.
— LM Montgomery
She lifted her head and stepped lightly along, her eyes fixed on the sunset sky and an air of subdued exhilaration about her.
— LM Montgomery
Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
— LM Montgomery
Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance.
— Larry Crabb
A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .
— Laurence Sterne
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
— Mark Twain
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
— Carl Sagan