Reflection Quotes — Page 36

Biologist, Anthropologist

“My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'”

Science Stupid Reflection

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Thomas Huxley

Biologist, Anthropologist

“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.”

Light Truth Reflection

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Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

“We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.”

Way Purpose

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Robin Sharma

Author, Speaker

“An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.”

Practice Reflection

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.”

Dream Reflection Hints

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.”

Giving Religious Reflection

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.”

Reading Religion Reflection

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Reading Reflection Bears

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Tom Hanks

Actor, Producer

“I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.”

Ideas Motivation Reflection

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Richard P. Feynman

Physicist

“Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.”

Reflection Glasses Arrows

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Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

“The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.”

Reflection Social Determined

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Stephen King

Author

“You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.”

Reflection Hunger Breakfast

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