23 Best Introspection Quotes

Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell.

You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? – Clarice Starling

I've got a little black book with my poems in it. – Travis Bickle

The true meaning of strength is having the courage to face your own heart. – Jushiro Ukitake

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? – Albert Einstein

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? – Steve Jobs

Or are you doing this for yourself? To fill a dark, empty, soulless void inside of you? – Derek Zoolander

I live in two worlds, one is a world of books. – Rory Gilmore

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Let him that would move the world first move himself. – Socrates

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? – Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. – Plato

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. – Dalai Lama

The human brain runs on software which is largely inherited, but it is also capable of introspection and self-improvement. – Richard Dawkins

The best way to find an answer is to hold the question in your heart. – Akira Kurosawa

I’m attracted to characters who are in a state of silence, who are carrying a lot of weight. – Denis Villeneuve

The desert is a place where you are in direct contact with your soul. – Denis Villeneuve

I want very much to tell, to talk about, the whirling flow of thoughts and feelings that go through my mind. – Ingmar Bergman