Quotes About Reflection

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?