Reflection Quotes

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

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

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.

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

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

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?

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

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.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Reflection makes men cowards.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

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.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.