Quotes about Introspection
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
— John Donne
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
— Thomas a Kempis
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
— DH Lawrence
No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.
— AW Tozer
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
— DH Lawrence
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
— Edmund Burke
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
— Edmund Burke
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman