Quotes About Reflection

My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Yet in truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.

Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than any other single event marks the end of the old days, and the beginning of a new, uneasy era.

If wealth meant so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?

The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will.

I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.

Aber was interessiert mich der Schnee von morgen? Ich bin mit der Bewältigung und Vergangenheit so gut ausgelastet, dass ich nicht auch noch wissen muss, was mir in der Zukunft blüht.

WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.

Je weniger qualvoll die Todesart, desto weniger attraktiv die Tiere. Wenn du friedlich an Altersschwäche stirbst, siehst du nur ein Huhn. Das letzte Huhn. Es gackert, und du bist hinüber.

Das Leben, mein Junge, ist nicht nur eine wilde, schöne Reise. Leben, das heißt auch: dem Tod bei der Arbeit zuzusehen. Das ist das Härteste überhaupt! Das muss man aushalten können. Bist du bereit, das auszuhalten, mein Junge?

Ich bin ein Privatier und professioneller Flaneur, ich habe viel Zeit und Muße zum Beobachten. Und ich habe alle Herles-Olmshock-Romane von Olyander Conthura gelesen - zigmal! Das schult das detektivische Auge und die Kombinationsgabe ungemein!

Ohne Oberfläche gibt es keine Tiefe", erwiderte der Gnom.

Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?

Grosse lacrime cominciarono a scorrermi sulla faccia e mi sforzai di convincermi che era solo una questione di nervi. E invece piangevo per la tristezza di dover constatare che il tempo sfugge a tutti noi e non si lascia alle spalle altro che immagini sempre più pallide.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

The older you get the more you live in the past

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.