Quotes About Reflection

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.