Quotes About Reflection

Solitude, the one natural resource still undowered of alphabets, is so far recognized as valuable only by ornithologists and cranes.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

Qué deseaba yo? Deseaba un silencio perfecto. Por eso hablo.