| "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination." »Denis Diderot |
| "It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done." »Samuel Johnson |
| "We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad" »Dorothe Deluzy |
| "And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of." »William Shakespeare |
| "On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved." »Isha McKenzie-Mavinga |
| "If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it." »Chinese Proverb |
| "By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest." »Confucius |
| "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." »Thomas Paine |
| "How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people." »Albert Einstein |
| "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." »Denis Diderot |
| "A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." »I Ching |
| "There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "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 |
| "To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective." »David Guterson |
| "No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." »Taoist Proverb |
| "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." »George Santayana |
| "If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before." »Mitchell Burgess |
| "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." »Thomas Paine |
| "There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all" »William Hart Coleridge |
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