Reflective Quotes

119 quotes by 110 authors

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? — Jonathan Sacks
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. — Peter Singer
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them… — Pete Townshend
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good… — Garrison Keillor
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.… — Epictetus
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… — Bill Bryson
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to… — Washington Irving
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around… — Alice Walker
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte
The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.â€ "Itâ€™s a mirror,â€ Simon… — Cassandra Clare
I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and… — Anne Rice
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person… — Max Planck
What do you look at while youâ€™re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to… — Thomas Harris
I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! — Jay Asher
educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improveâ€”as Coach Graham taught meâ€”is if we develop… — Randy Pausch
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,… — Alan Watts
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer… — Susan Cain
He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective,… — David Wong

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