Quotes About Reflection

Still, he didn't like being old.

She'd had a lot of practice at closing off the part of herself that felt sad about things like this.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.