reflection Quotes

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

I am rather inclined to silence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.