Top 140 Introspection Quotes & Sayings

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

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

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.

Introspection! I hate it!

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

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

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

Introspection is a devouring monster.

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

Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

[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.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else's life, that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

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

The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.

I am a victim of introspection.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

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

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

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

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

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

'what.' is bombastic introspection. It's large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

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.

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

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

All attention is introspection.

Introspection is always retrospection

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

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

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

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

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

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.