Quotes About Reflection

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.