Self Examination Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination,… — Colman McCarthy
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who… — Eric Maisel
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. — Mencius
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... — Balthus
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are… — M. Scott Peck
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight. — David Brock
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike
Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom — M. Scott Peck
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment -… — Tim Ferriss
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. — Barbara Ehrenreich
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us… — Mitsuo Fuchida
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. — Richard Cushing
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the… — Francois Fenelon
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. — M. Russell Ballard
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series… — Joseph Addison
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. — Francois Fenelon
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. — Richard Gere

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