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50 Quiet Introvert Quotes

List Of 50 Quiet Introvert Quotes:

#1 Jonny Sun

“Introverts enjoy people-watching. Extroverts enjoy people watching.”

#2 Margaret Donnano

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

#3 Sophia Dembling

“Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.”

#4 Alexei Maxim Russell

“I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.”

#5 Yoko Ono

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

#6 Alan Watts

”I owe my solitude to other people.”

#7 Oscar Wilde

”A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

#8 Liv Tyler

“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”

#9 Napoleon Hil

”Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

#10 Abraham Lincoln

”Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

#11 Laurie Helgoe

“Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you ‘too much’ in some ways and ‘not enough’ in others.”

#12 Sherry Turkle

“Loneliness is failed solitude.”

#13 Marilynne Robinson

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.”

#14 Carl Gustav Jung

”Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

#15 Lao Tzu

”Silence is a source of great strength.”

#16 Paulo Coelho

“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.”

#17 Anais Nin

”Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”

#18 Marie Symeou

“Life isn’t about just talking, it’s about thinking too.”

#19 Namrata Kumari

“It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.”

#20 Jarod Kintz

“I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.”

#21 Oliver Markus Malloy

“Introverts think about more than just being introverts.”

#22 Jenn Granneman

“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.”

#23 Michael Finkel

“Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see “the unfathomable stupidity of man”

#24 Neena H. Brar

“As often happens with introverts who, despite having nothing against people, find the solitude of their home more comforting as opposed to the company of others, he was thought arrogant by many.”

#25 Elliot Kay

“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.”

#26 Walter Bagehot

”An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”

#27 Miles Patrick Yonka

“I search for solitude and within that search I find “me”

#28 Rainer Maria Rilke

“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”

#29 Pierce Brown

“He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”

#30 Nikola Tesla

“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

#31 Diane Cameron

“Introverts crave meaning so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.”

#32 Jenn Granneman

“Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.”

#33 Laurie Helgoe

“A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.”

#34 Tim LaHaye

“Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.”

#35 Albert Einstein

”Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

#36 Sophia Dembling

“I’ve been accused my whole life of being “too sensitive”. This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that’s just because I’m too sensitive.”

#37 Beth Buelow

“Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.”

#38 Rollo May

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

#39 Aletheia Luna

“If you are an introvert, you are born with a temperament that craves to be alone, delights in meaningful connections, thinks before speaking and observes before approaching.”

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#40 Stephen Hawking

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

#41 Brent Runyon

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”

#42 Dau Voire

“I’m very picky with whom I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity.”

#43 Anneli Rufus

“The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.”

#44 Shannon Alder

“The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.”

#45 Audrey Hepburn

“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”

#46 Michaela Chung

”Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea.”

#47 Adam S. McHugh

“Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.”

#48 Edward Gibbon

”I was never less alone than when by myself.”

#49 Criss Jami

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”

#50 Laurie Helgoe

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”

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