Quotes about Introspection
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
— Dale Carnegie
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.
— Donald Miller
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
— Khalil Gibran
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
— Laurence Sterne
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
— Walt Whitman
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
— Albert Einstein
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
— Albert Einstein
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
— CS Lewis