Menander Quotes

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

I know what I don't want.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.