Quotes about Introspection

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

As if any man really knew aught of my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.

When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. Why what have you thought of yourself? Is it you then that thought yourself less?

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.