Quotes about Introspection

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.