Quotes About Reflection

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

You find out what type of man you are.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.