Quotes About Reflection

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

No man ever became wise by chance.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.