Quotes about Self-reflection
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Holy Spirit convicts us ... He shows us the Ten Commandments; the Law is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. We look in the mirror of the Ten Commandments, and we see ourselves in that mirror. AMERICAN EVANGELIST BORN 1918 IN NORTH CAROLINA
— Ray Comfort
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Cicero
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
— Max Lucado
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
— GK Chesterton
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin