Reflection Quotes

"Can beauty be so sad" "Being aware is the first step to understanding the depth of life as it happens to you." "I have an existential map it has 'You are here' written all over it" "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes" "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "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" "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."