Quotes About Reflection

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education is soul crafting.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.