Quotes about Introspection
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
— Richard Baxter
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
— CS Lewis
No man knows himself as an original.
— Washington Allston
No man knows himself as an original.
— Washington Allston