Reflection Quotes

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

Thought, Sense, Thin

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

Life, Marriage, Thoughts

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.
Eric Hoffer

Eyes, Others, Themselves

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom, Joy, Irony

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

Life, Enjoy, Water

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

Change, Government, Society

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

Today, Nothing, Ego

Reflection makes men cowards.
William Hazlitt

Men, Makes, Cowards

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke

Mind, Ideas, Float

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

Free, Middle, Proper

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Looking, Face, Glass

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.
David Hume

Reason, Room, Willing

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

Family, Everything

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
Max Muller

Reality, Fire, Sun

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer

Words, Eyes, Others

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

Gay, Matter, Religious

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

Life, Hope, Before

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Mind, Giving, Same

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Time, Nice, Survive

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

Life, Living, Soul

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith, Doubt, Thought

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

Love, Character, Enemy

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

Experience, Show, Belief

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Character, Deep, Personal

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez

Character, Growth, Language

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
Tori Amos

Music, Minds, Culture

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Zi

Power, Honor, Coming

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut

Life, Preferred

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.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Reason, Creative

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
Sidney Poitier

Work, Values, Chosen

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