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Introspection Quotes

"On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity"
Adam Smith
"The learned man knows that he is ignorant"
Victor Hugo
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found"
John Steinbeck
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power"
Rene Descartes
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time"
Thomas Carlyle
"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them "
Elizabeth Gilbert
"One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you’re right but not enough to know you’re wrong."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself."
Noam Chomsky
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."
Rumi
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself"
Plato
"In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves."
Esther Perel
"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves."
Esther Perel
"Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world."
Fernando Pessoa
"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
Fernando Pessoa
"I don’t know who you are now, when we are not together"
Pablo Neruda
"You can make yourself love, not like way back but always I seem to know I am an exception"
Anne Sexton
"Even so at times I think I will never be like other people but is this exactly what I would want"
Anne Sexton
"The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says - the lack of privacy and the idea that you're always on display."
Madonna
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