Quotes About Reflection

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.