Maryanne Wolf Quotes

They only babble who practise not reflection.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

You know, like, real paying attention and real observation and deep thought and deep consideration can be a bit, you know, miserable-making.

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.