Introspective Quotes

59 Introspective quotes by 57 unique authors

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It… — P.G. Wodehouse
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby
There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions… — Dalai Lama
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can… — Al Oerter
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. — Rowan Atkinson
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant… — Harry Reasoner
I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think… — Richard Gere
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry
There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk. — Tom Sharpe
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than… — Tom Robbins
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But… — Paul Desmond
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it… — Radhanath Swami
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like… — Erica Jong
Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the… — Stanley Clarke
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet… — Yann Martel
As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical. — Russell Brand
I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at… — Sheryl Lee
You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come… — Amy Ray
If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion. — Winston Damarillo
Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings,… — Luigi Pirandello
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium… — Richard Leakey
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective,… — Frederick Lenz
I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert. — John Thaw
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a… — Joshua Waitzkin

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