Introspection Quotes

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

All attention is introspection.

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird’s eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

What is reading but silent conversation.

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.