reflection Quotes

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

You can never plan the future by the past.