Self-Examination Quotes

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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali)[][]
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. (Wallace Stevens)[][]
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)[][]
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. (Unknown)[][]
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. (K.T. Jong)[][]
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. (James Baldwin)[][]
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. (Carol Shields)[][]
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. (Joe Cordare)[][]
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. (Henry David Thoreau)[][]
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)[][]
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. (Alice Walker)[][]
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. (William Butler Yeats)[][]
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. (Phyllis Battelle)[][]
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. (Timothy Leary)[][]
I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born. (Paula Cole)[][]
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. (Matthew Arnold)[][]
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. (Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon)[][]
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. (Thomas Mann)[][]
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. (Unknown)[][]
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. (Pearl Bailey)[][]
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