Quotes about Reflection
although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
— Dorothy Sayers
in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.
— Dorothy Sayers
Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which is odd, seein how unsatisfactory most of us turn out.
— Dorothy Sayers
his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.
— Dorothy Sayers
Do nothing without regard to the consequences.
— Aesop
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
— Aesop
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
— Aesop
When you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
— Alain de Botton
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
— Alain de Botton