Quotes about Introspection
Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
— Beth Moore
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
— Marcus Aurelius
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
— Marcus Aurelius
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
— Maya Angelou
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
— John Milton
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.
— Confucius
One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
— Thomas Merton
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
— John Tillotson
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
— AW Tozer
Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.
— Beth Moore