Quotes About Reflection

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

Of course. You get everything from books.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.