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Reflection |
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| "Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily
robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning
away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." |
| -- I Ching (BC 1150) |
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| "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our
reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three
means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not
common." |
| -- Denis Diderot (1713-84),
French philosopher, writer |
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| "There is one art of which man should be master, the art of
reflection." |
| -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), English poet, critic |
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| "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection,
which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest." |
| -- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC),
Chinese sage |
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| "Knowledge
of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to
know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its
characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran |
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| "Reflection
of past actions clarifies the purpose of future actions." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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