Quotes about Introspection
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.
— Jonathan Edwards
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
— Alice Walker
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
— St. Jerome
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
— E Stanley Jones
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
— Stephen Covey
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
— Stephen Covey
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
— Brian Tracy
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
— Vernon Howard