Bobby Fischer Quotes

Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Never take advice, including this.

I will not become analytical about my work.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least give it the floor. Because it is the key, not only to consciousness, but to real growth.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.