Quotes about Reflection
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
— Paul Tillich
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
— Marianne Williamson
Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
— JD Greear
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
— Francois Rabelais
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
— Albert Einstein
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
— George Eliot
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
— John Donne
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
— Thomas a Kempis