Quotes About Reflection

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.