Quotes about Reflection
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
— Henry David Thoreau
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
— Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
— Henry David Thoreau
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
— Herman Melville