Quotes about Introspect

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'.

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be expert in home-cosmography.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

I can only speak to myself.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, 2005).

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.

Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.