Reflective
Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason.
Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.
Reflexive; reciprocal.
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Reflective Quotations
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
Peter Singer
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
Michael Bloomberg
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
Tim Robbins
I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
Bubba Sparxxx
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Augusten Burroughs
Reflective Translations
reflective in German is reflektierend, reflektiert, reflektierend
reflective in Spanish is reflexivo
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