Self Examination Quotes

Self Examination Quote of the day

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.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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 - now and not later.

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

He who knows himself knows others.

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

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

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

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.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

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

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

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

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.

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.

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.

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

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

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

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

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.

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.

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.

Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.

This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

Seldom do we think about how seldom we think.

EGO means attachment to layers of our unexamined thoughts and illusions.We avoid self inquiry because it shatters our belief system and false image.

Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.