Quotes about Reflection
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
— John Keats
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
— Max Born
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
— Albert Einstein
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
— Carl Sagan
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
— Carl Sagan
Never regret anything that made you smile.
— Mark Twain
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
— John Keats
A happy moment can last a lifetime if you remember to smile when you think of it.
— Anonymous
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
— Henry David Thoreau