Quotes about Introspection
Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.
— Soren Kierkegaard
People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Oh, to what degree human beings would become—human and lovable beings—if they would become single individuals before God!
— Soren Kierkegaard
Oh, to what degree human beings would become—human and lovable beings—if they would become single individuals before God!
— Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking, it is I about whom it is speaking—this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness
— Soren Kierkegaard
It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)
— Soren Kierkegaard
He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
— Saint Jerome
This silence pours a solitariness Into the very essence of my soul; And the deep rest, so soothing and so sweet, Hath something too of sternness and of pain.
— John Henry Newman
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
— Jack Kerouac
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
— CS Lewis
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot