reflection Quotes

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.