Quotes about Self-reflection
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Cicero
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
— Max Lucado
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
— GK Chesterton
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
— CS Lewis
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
— Charles Spurgeon
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
— Cormac McCarthy
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
— George Eliot