Reflection Quotes

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. (Herbert Simon)
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to... fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. View quote
Thomas Merton
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I'm a reflection of the community. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. View quote
Peter Drucker
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it. View quote
Charles Cooley
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. View quote
Thomas Paine
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. (Marcel Marceau)
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. View quote
William Whewell
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking. View quote
Vasily Klyuchevsky
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. View quote
Anatole France
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. View quote
Edward Young
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. View quote
Eugenio Montale
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. (John Lennon)
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. View quote
Cicero
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons