Inward Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Aristotle)
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. View quote
William Hazlitt
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. View quote
Henry Miller
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. View quote
John Woolman
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. View quote
George Eliot
Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. View quote
Rubén Darío
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
There never was a war that was not inward I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. View quote
Marianne Moore
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. (Virginia Woolf)
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. View quote
Theodore Parker
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. View quote
Meister Eckhart
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. View quote
Gaston Leroux
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. View quote
Vash Young
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition - it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind - yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! View quote
William James
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion. View quote
William James
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. View quote
William James
She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway. View quote
George Eliot