Self-examination Quotes

35 quotes by 32 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
• My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations. — Olivia Newton-John
• 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
• A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on… — Marcus Aurelius
• 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
• 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
• The examined life is no picnic. — Robert Fulghum

Who Wrote These Self-examination Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 35 Self-examination Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Self-examination Quotes by Trent Reznor
• 2 Self-examination Quotes by Balthus
• 2 Self-examination Quotes by M. Scott Peck
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Elif Safak
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Jay McInerney
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Dejan Stojanovic
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Colman McCarthy
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Eric Maisel
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Mencius
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Olivia Newton-John
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel
• 1 Self-examination Quote by David Brock
• 1 Self-examination Quote by John Updike
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Marcus Aurelius
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Tim Ferriss
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Mitsuo Fuchida
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Richard Cushing
• 1 Self-examination Quote by M. Russell Ballard
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Joseph Addison
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Robert Fulghum
• 1 Self-examination Quote by Thomas a Kempis