Definition of Reflect

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Reflect

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.

To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.

To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.

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Reflect Quotations

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka

Reflect Translations

reflect in Danish is kaste tilbage
reflect in Dutch is reflecteren, terugkaatsen, spiegelen
reflect in Italian is riflettere, riflettere
reflect in Latin is pondero, consulo
reflect in Portuguese is refleta
reflect in Spanish is superior, reflejar, razonar

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