Quotes about Introspection

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Change yourself — you are in control."

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.

However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.