Quotes About Reflection

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.