Quotes about Introspection
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
— Samuel Johnson
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
— Francois Rabelais
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
— Rainbow Rowell
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
— Henry David Thoreau
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
— Henry David Thoreau
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There are worse places to be than on your own.
— Ernest Hemingway
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
— Albert Einstein
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
— Albert Einstein
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
— Ellen Glasgow
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
— Ellen Glasgow
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
— Marcus Aurelius