reflection Quotes

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.