Quotes about Reflection
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson