Quotes About Reflection

Go to where the silence is and say something.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Memory feeds imagination.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

What year is it in your imagination?