Quotes about Introspection
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
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
— Mortimer Adler
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
— Oprah Winfrey
Trials teach us what we are.
— Charles Spurgeon
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
— Thomas a Kempis
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe