Quotes on Introspection

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

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

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

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