Quotes about Introspection

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

Resolved, To act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings, as others, and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.

Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?" Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.