Huston Smith Quotes

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Huston Smith

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection

• Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Experience
  • Reflection

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Personality
  • Reflection

• Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

  

  Mark Frost
  • People
  • Moving
  • Reflection

• I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror
  • Ugly

• Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

  

  Nelson Piquet
  • Job
  • Fly
  • Reflection

• I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Reflection

• Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

  

  David Grann
  • Reflection

• That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

  

  Ann Romney
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.

  

  David Crystal
  • Country
  • Society
  • Reflection

• Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Reflection

• PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

  

  George Maciunas
  • Reality
  • Critics
  • Revolutionary

• The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • True
  • Liberal
  • DNA

• But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • Winter

• Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Curiosity

• Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Reflection
  • Mimic
  • Human intelligence