Quotes about Reflection
Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.
— James Carse
I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.
— Dorothy Sayers
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
— Dorothy Sayers
although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
— Dorothy Sayers
in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.
— Dorothy Sayers
Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which is odd, seein how unsatisfactory most of us turn out.
— Dorothy Sayers
his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.
— Dorothy Sayers
Do nothing without regard to the consequences.
— Aesop
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
— Aesop