Quotes about Reflection
For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.
— Aristotle
When in doubt, say nothing and move on.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A nation that forgets its past has no future
— Winston Churchill
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
— Soren Kierkegaard
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
— Soren Kierkegaard
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The lyrical author is only concerned with his production, enjoys the pleasure of producing, often perhaps only after pain and effort; but he has nothing to do with others, he does not write in order that: in order to enlighten men or in order to help them along the right road, in order to bring about something; in short he does not write in order that.
— Soren Kierkegaard