Definition of Reflecting

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Definition of Reflecting
	Reflecting of Reflect Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Related Definitions: As, Back, Consideration, Contemplative, Given, Heat, Light, Mind, Mirror, Of, Or, Other, Reflect, Reflecting, Reflection, Reflective, Serious, Surface, Throwing, To

Reflecting Quotations

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
Lenny Kravitz

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

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