Quotes About Reflection

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.