Quotes about Introspection

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.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo

Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to enter the orchard by any gate but our own. To do this is dangerous for the one who enters and also for those who are already there.