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True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Hugh Blair

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

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
French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784)

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
French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784)

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