Reflection Quotes And Sayings

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“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ”
– George Santayana

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ”
– margaret J. Wheatley

“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ”
– Samuel Johnson

“It’s important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they’ll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. ”
– Paula Radcliffe

“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ”
– Denis Diderot

“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. ”
– Cal Thomas

“Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other’s point of view? ”
– William Shatner

“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. ”
– Sophocles

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. ”
– John Locke

“What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people. ”
– Lady gaga

“The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy – they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.”
– Rick Perry

“Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. ”
– Tori Amos

“The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.”
– George Santayana

“Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. ”
– Alexander Pope

“A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character. ”
– Daniel Day Lewis

“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”
– William Ralph Inge

“Everything family does is reflection on the other people. ”
– Kim Kardashian

“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. ”
– Theodor Adorno

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”
– Rudolf Steiner

“I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn’t exist, because I hated myself so much. ”
– Margaret Cho

“I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. ”
– Gene Tierney

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.”
– Thomas Paine

“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.”
– Thomas Merton

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“In water one sees one’s own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another”
– French Proverb

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