Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

Marilynne Robinson

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Pat Metheny

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

Plato

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Paulo Freire

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

Paulo Freire

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Paulo Freire

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Peter Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Meat Loaf

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Max Muller

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

Max Ernst

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Max Frisch

It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.

Marianne Williamson

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Mario Balotelli

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Marilyn Manson

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection.

Mary Astell

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Michael Connelly

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Margaret Mead

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

Margaret Heffernan

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way..

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Michael Bell

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

Neal Shusterman

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.

Neale Donald Walsch

The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Lauryn Hill

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

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.

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.

Jacque Fresco

As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation. He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test. He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience. What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

Man Ray

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

John Adams

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

Eric Hoffer

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.