Quotes about Introspection
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
— Myles Munroe
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
— Virginia Woolf
It is a great thing to know your vices.
— Cicero
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
— Henry David Thoreau
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
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