reflection Quotes

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

History should be written as philosophy.