Top 25 Introspection Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Introspection Quotes from famous people such as Abby Wambach, Imre Kertesz, Jessica Alba, Megyn Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what’s to come, and I think that’s why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
Abby Wambach
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn’t bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn’t know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
Jessica Alba
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn’t happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
Megyn Kelly
I am a victim of introspection.
Sylvia Plath
I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.
Fab Moretti
‘what.’ is bombastic introspection. It’s large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.
Bo Burnham
There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn’t much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.
Richard Ben Cramer
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
SZA
The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.
Louis van Gaal
I don’t think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.
Leroy Chiao
Passion is something that’s hard to discover purely through introspection. You have to have experiences – you have to learn real-time and through experiences what makes you tick.
Ivanka Trump
Cinema now can’t be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won’t work.
Mahesh Bhatt
A writer needs a life of introspection.
Tom Robbins
Introspection, or ‘sitting in the silence,’ is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
Paramahansa Yogananda
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.
Eliot Spitzer
Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama’s stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?
Shashi Tharoor
I’m not used to introspection. I’ve never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
Brenda Lee
I don’t think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don’t know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
Naomi Judd
That moment in ‘Broadcast News’ where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it’s awful – I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn’t help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.
Zoe Kazan
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
Bernard Goldberg
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
Donovan
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society – nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
Donald E. Westlake
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
Caroline Knapp