Quotes About Reflection

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

Experience gives meaning to knowledge.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.