Quotes about Introspective

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet He may be called a Christian Elijah.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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.

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.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.