Quotes about Reflection

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Youth is wasted on the young.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.