reflection Quotes

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.