Quotes about Reflection
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
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
— Theodore Roosevelt
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry