Quotes about Introspection
Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
— Wendell Berry
To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
— Wendell Berry
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
— Wendell Berry
In solitude, we lose our loneliness.
— Wendell Berry
When you have gone too far, as I think he did, the only mending is to come home.
— Wendell Berry
He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.
— Wendell Berry
The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.
— Charles Martin
Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.
— Charles Martin
So, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I'd learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.
— Charles Martin
I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.
— Charles Martin
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
— Charles Spurgeon
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
— Charles Spurgeon