Quotes
Quotes about Reflection
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -John Adams.
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Psychological Reflections.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
