Quotes about Introspection

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts, Bring sad thoughts to the mind." William Wordsworth

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

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.

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.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.