Quotes About Reflection

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.