Paulo Coelho Quotes

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

To live is to think.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

There are no mistakes.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.