Quotes About Reflection

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

You learn from your mistakes.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Deep learning doesn't shine.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.