Quotes About Reflection

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.