Quotes About Reflection

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Experience is a great teacher.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.