logo

Quotes About Reflection

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
~ Teresa of Avila
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
~ Plato
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
~ Nelson Mandela
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
~ Mirra Komarovsky
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
~ Anatol Rapoport
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
~ Ellen Langer
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
~ Tracy Morgan
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.
~ Ja'far al-Sadiq
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
~ Plato
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
~ Victor Hugo
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
~ Bayard Taylor
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
~ Howard Nemerov
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
~ Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
~ H. G. Bohn
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
~ Ludwik Fleck
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience
~ Tarthang Tulku