Quotes about Introspection

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.