reflection Quotes

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.

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.

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

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.