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Quotes About Reflection

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
~ Vince Neil
Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.
~ W. Clement Stone
You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
~ Will Rogers
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
~ William Ralph Inge
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
~ William Shakespeare
Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
~ Charles Bukowski
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
~ Charles Lamb
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
~ Charles Yu
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
~ Chinua Achebe
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
~ David O. McKay
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
~ Don DeLillo
The heart of a man is like deep water
~ Douglas Coupland
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
~ E. W. Howe
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
~ Elie Wiesel
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
~ Emile M. Cioran
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
~ Enson Inoue
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
~ Erich Fromm
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
~ Euripides
The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
~ Frances Lear
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few men know all the ill they do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld