Quotes about Reflection
No sensible person ever made an apology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
— Anonymous
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.
— Albert Camus
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— GK Chesterton
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
— Samuel Johnson
Sorrow makes us all children again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
— George Washington Carver
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous