Quotes About Reflection

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.