Quotes About Reflection

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.