7 Quotes Tagged: self-examination

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

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.

Profiting little by good examples, I make use of those that are ill, which are everywhere to be found: I endeavor to render myself as agreeable as I see others offensive; as constant as I see others fickle; as affable as I see others rough; as good as I see others evil: but I propose to myself impracticable measures.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.