Quotes About Reflection

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!