reflection Quotes

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.