Quotes About Reflection

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

For if he like a madman lived,At least he like a wise one died.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Little said is soon amended.

The pot calls the kettle black.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Little said is soonest mended.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Hay quien se hunde en la lectura de novelas para distraerse de sí mismo, para olvidar sus penas...