Leaning back in his chair, Cardona spent a few minutes in reflective thought.

For Hegel, reflective thought is to be avoided due to its circularity.

And occasionally I have reflective thoughts - it's not often enough - to deal with the problem like this.

An abysmal life begun and ended in ignorance, without morals, soul or a single reflective thought.

Noogenesis began with reflective thought; or with the first human beings.

He pulled on the throttle, which became part of his rhetorical equipment: he slowed for reflective thought, then sped up again.

Would the gentleness and the tolerance and the long reflective thought no longer be with mankind?

Where are the men and women of intellect and reflective thought?

This is partly because their characters are hedonists who have little use for reflective thought.

The fragmentary nature of television interfers with reflective thought and the careful mental repetition of the information presented.