Reflection Quotes

"I'm not really sure, but I think it might be that I'm just not enough" "It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is" "Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people" "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." "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" "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy"