Home / Topics / Reflection Quotes

Reflection Quotes

Browse 3084 quotes about Reflection.

Reflection Quotes

“As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what you are, what you are being and what you are doing. The movement in form enables you to comprehend what you are.”

Firsts Real Moving Form Movement Reflection

Author:John de Ruiter

“Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.”

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

“If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.”

People Ifs Firsts Doe Support Century Reflection Europe Constitution Twenties Structure Drawing Boards European Union Euro Signposts

Book:The Making of Europe's Constitution

Source: The Making of Europe's Constitution

“I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.”

Way Firsts Humans Wells Difficult Dark Human Beings Subjects Reflection Examination Difficult Subjects

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'”

Firsts Made Ideas Science Stupid Masters Reflection Biographies

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?”

“Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.”

Firsts Kind Joy Growing Up Records Growing Periods Reflection Life Experience Hiatus

Author:Fefe Dobson