Quotes About Reflection

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I live my daydreams in music.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

LSD trips and the space flights of the astronauts are comparable in many respects. Both enterprises require very careful preparations, as far as measures for safety as well as objectives are concerned, in order to minimize dangers and to derive the most valuable results possible. The astronauts cannot remain in space nor the LSD experimenters in transcendental spheres, they have to return to earth and everyday reality, where the newly acquired experiences must be evaluated.

While you're taking your minute to think, consider the possible outcomes. Immediately discard any that involve making the Bully back down and admit that you're right. You cannot be right and effective at the same time.