Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. — Moliere Copy Share Image
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. — Mencius Copy Share Image
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight. — David Brock Copy Share Image
“Whatever you have been told, re-examine life in the light of the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The… — Mitsuo Fuchida Copy Share Image
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic. — Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The real change starts with the individual, because each person's action either heals the world, or further plunges it downhill.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. — Richard Cushing Copy Share Image
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Change comes with a matter of self examination and knowing when your wrong — Adrian Thomas Copy Share Image
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
