Reflection Quotes — Page 40

Writer, Humorist

“All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.”

America Successful Reflection

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Kiki Smith

Artist

“I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.”

Ideas Reflection Luxury

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John F. Kennedy

Politician

“The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.”

People Government

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.”

Said Reflection

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John Adams

Founding Father, Politician

“Everything in life should be done with reflection.”

Done Should Reflection

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Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist

“I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.”

People Writing Reflection

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Jenny McCarthy

Actress, Model, Television Host

“What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”

People Giving Reflection

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.”

Thinking Mirrors Reflection

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.”

Desire Reflection Example

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John Locke

Philosopher, Physician

“The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.”

Ideas Simple Reflection

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John Locke

Philosopher, Physician

“These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.”

Ideas Two Reflection

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John Locke

Philosopher, Physician

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ideas Simple Reflection

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