Animal Quote by Hilary Kornblith

“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual…

— Søren Kierkegaard

What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

— Maryanne Wolf

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not…

— Susan Cain

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection.…

— John Dewey

“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.”

— John N. Gray

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have…

— Tom Regan

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

— Franz Marc

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction,…

— Bill Joy

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe