Quotes about Reflection
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
— Winston Churchill
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
— CS Lewis
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
— Oscar Wilde
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
— John Bunyan
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
— CS Lewis
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
— George Whitefield
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
— CS Lewis
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
— Thomas Merton