Quotes of Reflection - somelinesforyou

“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”

- Eliza Cook

“ I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious. ”

- Robert Plant

“ A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ”

- Edward Young

“ Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ”

- James Levin

“ Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. ”

- Confucius

“ RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face. ”

- Bruce Springsteen

“ Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Reflection makes men cowards. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Yesterday for contemplation, today for action. ”

- James Burgh

“ The general root of superstition: namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Opportunity is lost by deliberation. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ”

- Jorge Luis Borges

“ Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can. ”

- Helen Gurley Brown

“ To think is to act. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ”

- Unknown

“ I think therefore I am. ”

- Rene Descartes

“ None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. ”

- Sam Rayburn

“ Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. ”

- Bible

“ Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ”

- George Granville

“ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ”

- Aristotle

“ The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ Thinking nurseth thinking. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. ”

- Alexis Carrel
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