Quotes About Reflection

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.