Reflection Quotes

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are ...

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least un...

We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for ...

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ...

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seem...

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have...

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the r...

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. Hi...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the gr...

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of th...

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this o...

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my ac...

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflec...

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best...

In each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliev...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you,And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. ...

In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced...

Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is ...

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than w...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise...

Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic m...

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the ...

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit t...

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,To leave behind this place so negative and blindAnd cyn...

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking ...

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming t...

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still ...

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember wh...

The house in the story is based on my friend Tori's house in Kinsale, Ireland, which is obviously no...

Pegi just recorded "I Don't Want to Talk About," written by Danny Whitten, the original Crazy Horse ...

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes,...

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, ...

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry b...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that...

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the ...

Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then a...

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and ...

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

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need ...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

This forest silence improves anyone.

I may appear to suffer from some sort of compulsive repetition syndrome, but these rituals are impor...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its ...

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly ...

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but t...

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest...

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fi...

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

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...

Better to be dirty than dead.

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can thi...

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that ...

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of sil...

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts t...

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of ...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see i...

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we...

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it da...