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“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”

Humor Joy Reflection Insight Irony Ironic Gaiety

Author:Anatole France

“Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.”

Philosophy Reality Results Theory Reflection Aspect Harmony Regard Insight Data Analysis Reasoning Conception Principal Comprehensive Totality Synthesis

Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.”

People Men Book Seems Artist Personality Reflection Insight Warm Sensitive Glimpse Elusive Sensitive Man

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Process Acting Subjects Reflection Insight One Way Range Construction Connecting Positively Outlines Dots Prompts Acting Out Connecting The Dots

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.”

People Serious Reflection Insight Ritual Primitive Imaginative Deposits

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may come across and actually touch people's conscience or minds in a way that could change, at least if not things, change points of view.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Feelings Realizing Reflection Conscience Insight Point Of View Unexpected Things Change

Author:Jon Lee Anderson

“The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.”

Giving Relationship Reflection Essence Mirrors Insight Access Our Relationship

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.”

Inspirational Needs Writing Years Ideas Minutes Fool Majors Reflection Notes Valuable Insight Defense Each Day Collections Journal Forgetfulness Spurs Chores Keeping A Journal

Author:Roger N. Walsh

“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.”

“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.”

Awareness Honesty Reflection Insight

Book:Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light

Source: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light