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Reflective Quotes

This is the largest mood on the site for a reason: self-examination has been philosophy's core exercise since Socrates, and it shows in how much material exists. Expect fewer easy answers here and more good questions.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Walt Whitman

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson