425 Quotes About Introspection

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

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

What is sitting behind your judgments? What fears are you coddling?

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.

Sweetness in speaking doesn't assure sweetness of the soul; beauty of a peacock doesn't stop it from swallowing a snake.

It's only when you stop to think about it. I don't stop. - From "Morning

I said yes because I didn't want to do anything wrong,