Quotes About Reflection

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

Experience makes us wise.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.