Quotes About Reflection

abrirnos a la posibilidad de que, al menos en algunos aspectos, fueron más sabios que nosotros».[55]

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

They also reflect, at this relatively early stage in Kennan's career, one of his most persistent paradoxes: that he understood the Soviet Union far better than he did the United States.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

It is so much easier to believe than to think; it is astounding how much more believing is done than thinking.

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And

October, not April, would be the cruelest month.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

He also found an essay written by William James titled "What Makes a Life Significant

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Yesterday ended last night.

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.