Quotes About Reflection

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

Bolinas, California

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

We Americans are so good at critiquing our own nation, so determined to make it better, that sometimes we neglect to acknowledge all that is wonderful about it. Let us not commit the sin of ingratitude for so many blessings.

How do you avoid overconfidence? By telling yourself at least a few times per year, 'The market is much smarter than I will ever be.

A quote often misattributed to Mark Twain has it that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

William J. Bouwsma

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate.

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave -- now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks -- tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.