425 Quotes About Introspection

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

Sull imagined wild brook trout, cold and firm in the fast, healthy current, buried in the water like ingots of precious metal. They hold fast to the bank, laurel-green with bellies of coal-fire. Wilder colors than you'd dare imagine on your own. Stock had destroyed the run--to be truthful, {his family} had--and silky mud rose off the bottom in slow veils where the Angus dropped their hooves. Do rivers have ghosts? Do trout swim in the air?

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Introspection is the overture to one’s true character.

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

I fall into those gaps sometimes.You know, the gaps that open up in between thoughts.I reach out for the walls. Every time. And I grasp at emptiness…The gaps don’t have walls. You don’t need walls to climb out.You don’t need a matchstick either;light only makes your shadows look frightening.You only need to search the darknessfor the old face, carbon paper and a white mask.

To achieve happiness, we must continuously reflect and evaluate on our true thoughts and emotions in order to align them with our goals and desires, but most of all, our dreams for tomorrow.

What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation, especially if it is based on the self-analysis of a mature mind and is written with no vain desire to rouse our sympathy and curiosity. The problem with Rousseau's Confessions is that he read them to his friends.