Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Games Quotes

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Games Quotes

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Memories Quotes , Reflection Quotes

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Eye Quotes , Reflection Quotes

What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Uplifting Quotes , Reflection Quotes

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adi Shankara Quotes , Dream Quotes , Reflection Quotes

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Achy Obejas Quotes , Writing Quotes , Reflection Quotes

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Cities Quotes

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Indulge In Quotes

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Men Quotes

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Party Quotes , Reflection Quotes

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Sheep Quotes

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Reflection Quotes

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Reflection Quotes

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Hopeless Quotes

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Reflection Quotes

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Oil Quotes

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Examination Quotes

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mean Quotes , Reflection Quotes

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Government Quotes