Quotes About Reflection

The Truth is in the Depths

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

L'esprit de l'escalier [staircase wit].

My thoughts are my trollops.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Self-pity can breed self-destruction.

The oldster looked at his Crowner, his brows lifted high over his pale eyes, adding wrinkles to an already wrinkled brow.