Reflection Quotes

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future" "How fragile the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought" "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves" "To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow." "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it" "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts." "Travel makes one modest You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world" "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "All great and precious things are lonely." "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details" "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame" "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."