Quotes about Introspection
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
— Samuel Johnson
Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.
— Sandra Byrd
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
— Johannes Tauler
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
— John Adams
The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.
— John C. Wright
Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.
— John Calvin
He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.
— John Calvin
As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
— John Calvin
On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
— John Calvin
We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?
— John Calvin
We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?
— John Calvin