Quotes about Introspect
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
— Martin Luther
At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you.
— Oswald Chambers
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
— Psalm 139:23
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
— Craig Groeschel
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
— JM Coetzee
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
— St. Augustine
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
— Virginia Woolf
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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.)
— Walt Whitman