Quotes About Reflection

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards

the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Dorcas, for the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, useless, no-good parasite." She nodded and yawned again. "Everybody knows that." "Never mind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible—a time to stand up and be counted—strike a blow for liberty—smite the wicked.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.

If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.

Life is short, but the years are long.

have time to take out your soul and look at it.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Well, I suppose it did.

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of a man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance; he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.

however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Oremos por un último aterrizaje sobre el globo que nos vio nacer. Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.

I spent that summer pushing an idiot stick

Don't be in such a rush. It just slows you down.

curled up and indulged in that worst of vices, self-pity, doing it thoroughly, with plenty of tears. I don't see anything wrong with crying; it lubricates the psyche.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

I wonder how harmless, such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?

if you don't worry ahead of time, you'll regret it later.

heard Prof say, "Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die … and accepts his sentence undismayed.

It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don't mean that you should just make yourself more miserable; I am prescribing instead a form of solitude that is meditative and open to your inner self.