Quotes About Reflection

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.