Self Reflection Quotes

"Do I dare disturb the universe" "No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself." "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." "Only someone who is sincere recognizes the value of us thinking that we do not love enough" "It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Judge not before you judge yourself" "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." "Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself" "This hour I tell things in confidence." "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry" "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction." "You are the ego, the logic and the sense. You are the neverending presence of you." "In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good." "I think the most interesting thing is that self-discovery is one of the most important things I do" "We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love." "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky." "A writer often needs he has been untrue to himself in the process of writing."