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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together”
Alexander Meiklejohn
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein
“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called”
Winnie the Pooh
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
W. H. Auden
“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”
Denis Diderot
“For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.”
Rupert Murdoch
“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord”
Thomas Paine
“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”
David Hume
