Quotes about Self-reflection
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- George Bernard Shaw
You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin of pride.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
- George Eliot
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- St. Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
- St. Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
- St. Augustine
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
- Francis de Sales