Quotes about Reflection
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
— Francois Rabelais
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
— Albert Einstein
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
— George Eliot
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
— John Donne
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
— Thomas a Kempis
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
— Winston Churchill
It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.
— John Maxwell