Quotes by Reflection Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths. John J. Geddes reflectionattentionworld That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... John J. Geddes glassesreflectionfire Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field. John J. Geddes orangereflectiondark The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart. John J. Geddes reflectiondarkheart I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me. John J. Geddes lightmoonreflection Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable. John J. Geddes sundayreflectionrain I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been. John J. Geddes mapsreflectionbelieve It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances. John Henry Newman decisionreflectionwant The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend themselves to the kind of ethical reflection that is open to us all. That said, once we have determined roles and their contours, those who act within them may have special duties and privileges that others may lack. Specific roles may generate ethical inquiries with novel forms, just as new technologies may push us in new directions. John Kleinig technologyreflectionjustice Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles confusionreflectionworld Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. John Dewey reflectionscienceknowledge In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others. John Dewey reflectionlyingthinking My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon artisthippiereflection She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done. John Kenneth Galbraith regretreflectionscience When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. John Locke philosophicalreflectiondream How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dutyreflectionaction Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe naturereflectionbeauty If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined. John Locke simplereflectionideas Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought. John of Damascus intelligentangelreflection These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings. John Locke reflectiontwoideas«3536373839404142434445»
