Quotes about Reflection
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
— Lauren Bacall
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
— Marquis de Sade
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
— Richard Baxter
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
— Tertullian