reflection Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

It's a funny old world.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.