Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

I love talking about myself.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I talk to myself a lot.

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.