Self Examination Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this… — Vera Farmiga
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of… — J. Michael Straczynski
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. — Confucius
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… — Sylvia Plath
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 in the world.… — Bell Hooks
I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us.… — Elif Safak
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense… — Catherine Ryan Hyde
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. — Trent Reznor
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on. — Trent Reznor
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. — Jay McInerney
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand… — Dale E. Turner
Philosophical self-examination is not a reliable source of happiness. — Senoraroy
He who knows himself knows others. — Charles Caleb Colton
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the… — George Eliot
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction;… — George Herbert
When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Walter Savage Landor

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