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Quotes About Reflection

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.
~ Alamvusha
No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.
~ Alamvusha
I am not proud that i know so much. I am humbled that there is so much to learn, and i haven't been able to understand the little i have been priviledged to know.
~ Paul Bamikole
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.
~ Habeeb Akande
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Word of God gives birth to thoughts about God and about the knowledge of God.
~ Sunday Adelaja
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
~ Raheel Farooq
He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow.
~ Bible
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
~ Phaedrus
What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.
~ Thomas Mann
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
~ Cyril Connolly
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
~ Axel Munthe
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.
~ Robert Burns
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
~ Josh Billings
My closest relation is myself.
~ Terence
To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.
~ Cynthia Propper Seton
If I could know me I could know the universe.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
~ Paul Kagame