Top Reflection Quotes

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

Reflection Definition

(n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

(n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.

(n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.

(n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.

(n.) That which is produced by reflection.

(n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.

(n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.

(n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.

(n.) Censure; reproach cast.

(n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

Every joy is like a piece of mirror: always reflecting..

Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus...

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

It is never wise to run any race but your own.

Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, she would write seven decades later.

When I look in the mirror,I see me.Who do you see?

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in yo...

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.

You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

What made me become what I am now is just a reflection of how you have made me.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.