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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. – Vincent van Gogh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. – David Hume	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman. – Gaston Bachelard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Beauty is an instinctive miracle, which itself never makes its presence, but the reflection of which is evident in a thousand different statements of the inspired minds, and is as innumerable as nature itself. – The Omani shed	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Fear is the reflection of ignorance – Fernando Pacheco	added by anonymous 11 years ago
How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
You are a reflection of nature. You should always be upgrading, refining, and improving." – Steve Maraboli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? – William Hart Coleridge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself. – J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. – Ricther	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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