Quotes About Reflection

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.