Quotes about Introspection

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

the rhetorical formulas of objurgation with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: whether you were dead

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Prayer changes the person who prays.

Sometimes it's good to be alone, because that's when your heart is really open to God.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?