Quotes about Introspection
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment
— Seneca
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate
— William James
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
— Epicurus
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
— Epicurus
That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.
— Carl Jung
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
— CS Lewis
Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
— Mark Batterson
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
— Henry David Thoreau