Introspection Quotes

Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.

~ Sanober Khan

Your character is a reflection of your thoughts.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

~ Terry Gross

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

~ Floriano Martins

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

~ Dean Koontz

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

~ L.m. Montgomery

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

~ Sara Baume

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What are humans meant to do, why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning, what is the meaning of human existence?

~ David W. Earle

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

We shouldn't hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story.

~ Melizena

You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain hesitant. You see what you want, become hesitant, and the door of opportunity closes. It happens again. And again. And again. With each choice towards Inaction, you reject yourself a little bit more.

~ Pook

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

~ Marty Rubin

With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood’s ceaseless demands.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

~ Steve Goodier

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

The ability to control the devil in you, defines the strength of your conscience!

~ Gunbir Singh

People see the cleverness of nature and suppose it's the cleverness of the animal itself but it was obvious to me that each and every segment of the animal isn't aware. How much I'd hate to live totally unaware of myself, I thought. What would be the point of living, of existing, if you weren't ever to know about it? I looked at the Fox Moth and pitied it, poor unconscious creature. But then, I supposed, at least it wouldn't be disappointed. It would never find out.

~ Poppy Adams

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself.

~ Thomas Mann

Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.

~ Erin Meyer

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

~ C.g. Jung

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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

~ Socrates

Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says but wait... Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.

~ Michele Jennae

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

~ Sōseki Natsume

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

~ Brad Meltzer

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

~ Amit Kalantri

The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses.

~ Toba Beta