Quotes about Introspection
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
— Aesop
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain de Botton
What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves
— Alain de Botton
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
— Alain de Botton
It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.
— Alain de Botton
We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.
— Alain de Botton
Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.
— Alain de Botton
The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons.
— Alain de Botton
If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.
— Alain de Botton
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton
What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.
— Alain de Botton
Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.
— Derek Prince