Quotes about Self-examination

If lying and fabrication are psychologically harmful even in ordinary relations with other men (a sphere where a certain amount of falsification is not uncommon) all falsity is disastrous in any relation with the ground of our own being

When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

She began by reminding me of the scriptural injunction that the ox grinding the corn must not be kept from enjoying the grain. Did I think God felt less about His human workers? Hadn't I better examine myself to be sure I was not nursing a Sacrificial Spirit? Wasn't I claiming to depend upon God, but living as if my needs would be met by my own scrimping?

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.