Quotes about Introspection
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
— Carl Jung
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
— St. Augustine
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
— St. Augustine
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley
"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
— GK Chesterton
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
— Khalil Gibran
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
— Walt Whitman
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
— Walt Whitman