Quotes about Introspection
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
— Marcus Aurelius
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
— Marianne Williamson
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
— Erica Jong
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
— Epictetus
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
— Jonathan Edwards
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
— Teresa of Avila
Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
— Adrian Rogers
You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!
— Elias Canetti
Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo
— Elias Canetti
Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo
— Elias Canetti
Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.
— Elias Canetti