Reflection Quotes

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care.

The woman is the reflection of her man

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.

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.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

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

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It's all by the books.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.