Engines Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

— Plato

“So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value…

— Simon Blackburn

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

— John Dewey

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

— P.D. Ouspensky

“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

Reflection is the process of stepping back from an experience to ponder, carefully and persistently, it's meaning to the self through the development of…

— Anonymous

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully…

— William James

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts…

— Marcel Proust

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

— John Stuart Mill

“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means…

— Anonymous

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

— Margaret J. Wheatley