Quotes about Reflection
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
— Mark Twain
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.
— AW Tozer
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
— William Wordsworth
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
— John Milton
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
— Marcus Aurelius
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
— William Wordsworth
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
— Charles Dickens
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
— James Allen