Reflecting Quotes
260 quotes by 243 authors
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what…
— Lauren Bacall
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the…
— Henry Adams
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Edmund Burke
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the…
— Ian Anderson
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
— Dogen
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their…
— Winston Churchill
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.…
— Robertson Davies
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
— Francis Picabia
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...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader…
— Mark Twain
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind…
— Rajneesh
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical…
— Charles Lyell
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
— Charles Darwin
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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
— David Hume
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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
— David Hume
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Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Reflecting Quotes
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