Reflection Quotes - page 2

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. (William Kingdon Clifford)
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. View quote
David Hume
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. View quote
Denis Diderot
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. View quote
George Steiner
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. View quote
Confucius
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. View quote
Learned Hand
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
They only babble who practise not reflection. View quote
Edward Young
But with the morning cool reflection came. View quote
Walter Scott
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. (Henri Poincaré)
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. View quote
John Locke
I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate. View quote
John Ralston Saul
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? View quote
Michael Connelly
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss. View quote
Helen Fielding
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. View quote
Jeffrey Gitomer
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. (Hjalmar Branting)
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. View quote
Loren Eiseley
To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it. View quote
Anna Sui
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. View quote
Ann Macbeth