Quotes about Introspection
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into each individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into each individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson