Top Reflection Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Reflection quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Nick Burd
I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.
- Nick Burd
Collection: Reflection
Image of Russell Kirk
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present
- Russell Kirk
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Image of John Christopher
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
- John Christopher
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Image of Hugh Nibley
Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.
- Hugh Nibley
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Image of Jennifer Worth
Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself
- Jennifer Worth
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Image of Lyall Watson
Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.
- Lyall Watson
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Image of Mary Catherine Bateson
...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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Image of Henryk Sienkiewicz
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Image of Steve Vai
The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
- Steve Vai
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Image of Lisa See
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
- Lisa See
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Image of Kiki Smith
I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.
- Kiki Smith
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Image of Tarjei Vesaas
Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.
- Tarjei Vesaas
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Image of Sebastian Faulks
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
- Sebastian Faulks
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Image of Charles F. Haanel
The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite wisdom, infinite power and infinite supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without.
- Charles F. Haanel
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Image of Stephen Elliott
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.
- Stephen Elliott
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Image of Prince
I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.
- Prince
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Image of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Image of Joseph Chilton Pearce
Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Image of Brad Pitt
The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it
- Brad Pitt
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Image of Edmund White
Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
- Edmund White
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Image of Isaac Watts
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
- Isaac Watts
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Image of Isobelle Carmody
Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.
- Isobelle Carmody
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Image of Siri Hustvedt
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
- Siri Hustvedt
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Image of Margaret J. Wheatley
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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Image of Arnold Newman
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.
- Arnold Newman
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Image of Rudolf Steiner
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
- Rudolf Steiner
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Image of Kelly Slater
I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.
- Kelly Slater
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Image of Edie Brickell
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
- Edie Brickell
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Image of Clyde Tombaugh
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.
- Clyde Tombaugh
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Image of Samael Aun Weor
All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.
- Samael Aun Weor
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Image of Walter Murch
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.
- Walter Murch
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Image of Walter Murch
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
- Walter Murch
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Image of Robert Plant
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.
- Robert Plant
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Image of Hugh Blair
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
- Hugh Blair
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Image of Emma Thompson
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
- Emma Thompson
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Image of Steven Weinberg
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.
- Steven Weinberg
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Image of John Ralston Saul
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
- John Ralston Saul
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Image of Claude Monet
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
- Claude Monet
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Image of Jim Fergus
that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
- Jim Fergus
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Image of Chris Wooding
On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.
- Chris Wooding
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Image of Herbert Simon
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
- Herbert Simon
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Image of Walter Kirn
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
- Walter Kirn
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Image of Siobhan Dowd
has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?
- Siobhan Dowd
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Image of Frans de Waal
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
- Frans de Waal
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Image of Man Ray
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
- Man Ray
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Image of Demi Moore
Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?
- Demi Moore
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Image of Steven Morrissey
People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.
- Steven Morrissey
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Image of Julie Anne Peters
Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.
- Julie Anne Peters
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Image of Reggie Watts
The things that are reflected back at us, often times, are appealing to a base instinct that's about response as opposed to reflection. So for me, it's important to turn on a piece of information that might interest people, you know, that might interest them in pursuing or researching maybe, or even just thinking about it in that moment as I'm performing it.
- Reggie Watts
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Image of Terryl L. Givens
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.
- Terryl L. Givens
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