Reflections Quotes

160 quotes by 150 authors

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. — Louis Pasteur
Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you. — Wes Fesler
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the… — Claude Monet
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial… — Sherry Ortner
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew from the water,… — Lucian Blaga
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real.… — Douglas Sirk
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call… — Naum Gabo
Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears.… — James Hillman
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power… — Epictetus
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it… — Terence Cooke
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses… — Bruce Friedrich
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to… — Roger Caillois
Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just… — Sonya Hartnett
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other… — Alan Watts
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller… — Jacob M. Appel
Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections — Ryuho Okawa
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and… — Huston Smith
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. — Francois Fenelon
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it… — Rod Steiger
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with… — Francois Fenelon

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