Reflection Quotes

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Søren Kierkegaard

"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."

John Dewey

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

James Thurber

"Poetry makes nothing happen."

W. H. Auden

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility."

Eric Zorn

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”

“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.”

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“Tell me if anything was ever done.”

“I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”

“There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.”

“Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.”

“I have a wish. It is a fear as well: that in my end will be my beginning.”

“Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.”

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?'"

Steve Jobs

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

Edmund Burke