Best Self-examination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

Knows Littles Helping Light Sides Dark Know How Willing Acknowledge Behave Exploring New Thought Loving You Dark Side Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.”

Ifs Soul Done Night Growth Watches Morning Accounts Mark Agree Decay Self-examination

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

“In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?”

Self Age Connections Constant Examination Drifting Self-examination

Book:How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Source: How to Thrive in the Digital Age

“Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”

Doe Self Hurt Path Graves Hungry Confused Self Knowledge Examination Self-examination

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.”

Thinking Self Life Is Examination Voyages Self-examination

Author:Richard Gere

“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 truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.”

Strong Emotion Doubt Possibility Conscious Impression Suspects Horizon Self-examination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.”

Should Self Use Age Psychological Curious Revelations Examination Jargon Self-examination Self Revelation

Author:Anthony Daniels

“Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.”

Soul Self Speak Process Practice Becoming Your Soul Accountability Examination Self-examination

Author:Caroline Myss

“The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.”

Self Grows Impossible Journey Acceptance Self Love Reflection Self Acceptance Examination Self Reflection Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.”

Self Moments Lord Serious Obligation Significance Resolve Commandments Introspection Sacraments Examination Discernment Solemn Covenant Self-examination

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”

Years Self Whole Hours Conscience Self-examination Whole Year Approving

Book:An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

“It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.”

Looks Easy Difficulty Self-examination

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!”

Men World Attention Difficulty Fixing Self-examination

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.”

Ifs Looks May Littles Enough Views Wise Feet Proud Humble Thee Imperfection Feathers Thyself Being Wise Peacock Self-examination

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.”

World Persons Two Self Self-examination

Author:Arsene Houssaye

“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.”

Knows Doe Self Shows Asks Perfect Honest Like You Smart Officials Truthful Examination Mislead Not Perfect Good Sense Being Smart I'm Not Perfect Self-examination Public Officials

Author:Ann Richards

“The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.”

Has Beens Self Moments Life Is Consciousness Awareness Confidence Quiet Skills Self Awareness Arena Examination Examining Self Consciousness Self-examination Quiet Moments

Author:Jo Coudert

“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.”

“He who knows himself knows others.”

Knows Self-examination

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

“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.”

Knows World Self Periods Trade Terrorist Intense Novelists Examination Loathing Self Loathing Terrorist Attacks World Trade World Trade Center Self-examination

Author:Jay McInerney

“Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.”

Writing Self Pain Involved Examination Self-examination

Author:Trent Reznor

“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; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.”

Ifs Heart Art Home Speak Conscience Fairs Ill Guilty Thee Instruction Corrections Self-examination Not Guilty

Author:George Herbert

“Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”

Thinking Children Made Self Creativity Serious Hopefully Introspection Examination Having Children Self-examination

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.”

Book Self Culture Tears Titles Censorship Examination Lyrical Mickey Self-examination Lesbianism

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.”

Thinking Self Religion Sin Steps Unusual Examination Protestantism Self-examination Unusual Things

Author:Stendhal

“Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.”

Safe Suspects Self-examination

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Know thyself; this is the great object.”

Knows Objects Thyself Know Thyself Self-examination

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.”

World Mind Humans Heart May Use Form Understanding Imagination Exercise Concern Importance Entertainment Human Mind Self-examination

Author:William Warburton

“What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.”

Knows World Firsts Mean Doe Self Dedication Our Relationship Examination Never Ending Self-examination

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.”

Thinking Writing Book Self Asks Process Answers Examination Self-examination

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.”

Self Oneself Envy Colleagues Examination Constructive Complacency Self-examination

Author:Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

“When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.”

Thinking Way Needs Looks Self Sometimes Happens Causes Examination Way Of Thinking Adjustment Analyzing Look At Yourself Self-examination

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.”

Self Life Is Individual Nations Groups Nonviolence Examination Purification Self-examination

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action”

Self Action Assurance Examination Self-examination

Book:A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects

Source: A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects

“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

Self Circumstances Conversation Ordinary Accounts Employment Resolution Secular Examination Solemnity Self-examination

Book:Readings for every day in Lent

Source: Readings for every day in Lent

“If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.”

Ifs Self Asks Forever Policy Doctors Function Examination Diagnosis Live Forever Self-examination Bodily Functions

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.”

Thinking Self Hard Form Political Term Acting Imagine Movement Buddhism Degrees Mass Introspection Examination Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.”

People Has Beens Self Spiritual Political Example Constant Instance Spiritual Life Examination Combining Political Life Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Self Spiritual Understanding Leadership Business Psychology Relationship Awareness Human Nature Positive Thinking Humility Communication Wise Words Perception Discovery Self Awareness Profound Annoying Interaction Partnership Our Relationship Imitation Bad Ass Thyself Relationship Advice Psychiatrist Psychologist Be True To Yourself Being Single Human Relationships Of My Mind Love Relationship Funny Relationship Irritating Synchronicity Interacting Irritated Memories Dreams Reflections Irritation Understanding Others Social Interaction Self Understanding Relationships With Others Self Knowing Self-examination Happy Relationship Interacting With Others Knowledge And Understanding Collective Unconscious Love And Relationship Psychoanalytic Understanding And Love Optimistic Life Awareness Of Life Love Wisdom Funny Being Single Understanding Yourself Light Of My Life Perception Of Others Awareness Of Others Working A Lot Spiritual Relationship Inner Darkness Profound Thoughts Spiritual Partnership Understanding Things Understanding Knowledge Being Annoyed Two Personalities Reader's Digest Understanding Everything Becoming Who You Are Deceiving Ourselves

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.”

People Thinking Want Self Stories Values Turns Effects Examination Narcotics Self-examination

Author:Will Smith

“I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"”

Thinking Self College Examination Self-examination

Author:Wentworth Miller

“The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.”

“I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.”

I Can Lasts Remember Site Last Time Mike Self-examination

Author:Krist Novoselic

“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

Knows Heart Soul Asks Knowledge Bosoms Heart To Heart Self-examination

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“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 breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.”

Men Writing Book Self Problem Running Reflection Red Breaths Critical Bus Examination Self-examination

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

Eye Realizing Brain Staring Introspection Self-examination Look At Yourself In The Mirror

Author:Charles Bukowski

“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 and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.”

“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. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.”

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