Quotes About Reflection

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.