reflection Quotes

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.