Quotes about Reflection
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
— Henry David Thoreau
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
— Henry David Thoreau