Introspection Quote by Henry Adams

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a…

— Ayn Rand

“He never spoke of his past, for fear of evoking sympathy and also because he had not yet come to grips with it in…

— Isabel Allende

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

He had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

— Anonymous

“Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not think, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

— Albert Camus

“He didn't look back, the cold-blooded little prick. That's when I realized what I should have realized years ago: that there were people in…

— Jonathan Evison

“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin