Quotes about Self-reflection

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.