Top 66 Self Insight Quotes
#1. I don't dwell on the fact that I may have ridden on planes. That which I can't remember having needed, I simply accept. It is the most preferable kind of self-insight: one that does not require any accompanying change in behavior.
Benson Bruno
#2. At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding
Gino Norris
#4. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#5. Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature ... it is more than impersonation.
Leon Surmelian
#6. Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Vernon Howard
#7. The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#8. If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them.
Sharon Salzberg
#11. Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow.
Nikki Rowe
#12. To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with
people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need
nothing. Be what you are
conscious being
and don't stray away from
yourself.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#13. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.
Ilchi Lee
#14. Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Albert Bandura
#15. It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.
Ann Shulgin
#16. Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
Seth Godin
#17. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
Oli Anderson
#18. You can never reach to the truth if you don't even look for it, and the bigger dilemma with the truth is, that you don't have to go too far, but simply have to, turn your attention inward.
Roshan Sharma
#19. The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.
Kamal Ravikant
#20. Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
M. Scott Peck
#21. I hate that you don't have the insight.
I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out.
I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect.
And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return.
Back to this hell-hole.
Cho Gun-woo
#22. The narcissist cannot view himself objectively. Incapable of insight or self-criticism, he bases his identity on the illusion that he is unique, that there is no one in the world with his special gifts and talents.
Linda Martinez-Lewi
#23. The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.
Deepak Chopra
#24. Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.
Andrew Solomon
#25. True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
Aristotle.
#26. It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
Elizabeth Berg
#27. The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient's conversion to the therapist's interpretation.
Adolf Grunbaum
#28. It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
#29. Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus
James Martin
#31. Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.
Ramana Maharshi
#32. Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.
Amit Abraham
#34. The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
Gary Snyder
#35. I want to
peel away all the labels
I had once given to others
and place them
upon the fabric
of my own identity.
They have reflected back to me,
everything that I refuse
to See in myself.
Meraaqi
#36. Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#37. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth Johnson
#38. Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.
Gary Hopkins
#39. A woman knows what it means to experience the world as her individual self. That gives her insight into her own reality.
K.J. Kilton
#40. Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness - but also ignorance.
Heidi Cullinan
#42. To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Pearl Zhu
#43. If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you'd have no friends left at all.
Marcia Hutchinson
#44. Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.
Renae A. Sauter
#45. Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#46. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
Keith Ablow
#48. I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it.
Sarah McCarry
#49. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#50. There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.
India.Arie
#51. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...
Steven J. Carroll
#52. But to navigate transformation - genuine transformation that's true to exactly who we are - we must become mindful and attain a clear sense of self. We must take time to be alone with our thoughts and feelings. We must dive into daily practices that help us gather insight, wisdom, and clarity.
Jennifer Grace
#53. You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
Anne Lamott
#54. God would be knowable as an infinite progression from ignorance into higher levels of knowledge and insight about the nature of self and reality.
Erik Lenderman
#55. 'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#56. We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed
Rebecca Makkai
#57. God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#58. Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
#59. To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.
Stephen Russell
#60. When we see ourselves through another's eyes, we gain valuable insight and direction.
Deborah Sandella
#61. Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
Caroline Myss
#62. Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.
William Hughes Mearns
#63. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working
Zack Love
#65. What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.
Jeanne Safer
#66. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.
K.M. Golland
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