Quotations
Quotes:
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker
They only babble who practise not reflection.
View quotes by Edward Young
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
View quotes by Marcel Marceau
Law is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias
View quotes by Diane B Schulder
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
View quotes by John Locke
Self destructiveness is given a really bad rap. It can mean self-reflection, poetic sensibility, empathy, hedonism and libertarianism.
View quotes by Courtney Love
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
View quotes by Barbara De Angelis
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search
View quotes by Ernest Dimnet
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
View quotes by John Locke
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
View quotes by Confucius
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
View quotes by Thomas Paine
However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
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.
View quotes by Frederick Douglas
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
View quotes by James Thomson
Now bigger! More transparent! Less absorbent! And now with much, much more reflection! This is the summit that could make the European Union sound like a slightly alarming household cleaning appliance, as excitedly advertised on TV.
View quotes by Mark Mardell
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
View quotes by Steven Biko
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
View quotes by Thomas Merton
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