Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards 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
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. — Richard Cushing 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
“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
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic. — Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 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
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.… — Jay McInerney 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
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
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
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Self-love and compassion for other people commences with accepting responsibility for the harm caused by our own misconduct and by forgiving other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I don't like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
“Whatever you have been told, re-examine life in the light of the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Change comes with a matter of self examination and knowing when your wrong — Adrian Thomas 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
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
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 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
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.” — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
