Contemplating Quotes · Page 4

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice…

— Victor Hugo

There is nothing that destroys or paralyses mentality than contemplating about an irreparable past

— Jeffery Iyonawan

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

— Anonymous

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

— Niels Bohr

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

— Thomas Troward

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all…

— Akhenaton

Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of…

— Ruth Wilson

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and…

— Karl Jaspers

The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It…

— Bruce Pavitt

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with…

— Orville Dewey

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of…

— George Sarton

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the…

— Tycho Brahe

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees…

— A. B. Simpson

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like…

— Al Stewart

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast…

— Juliet Marillier

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by…

— Saint Augustine

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with…

— Charles Darwin

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.…

— Patrick O'Brian

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

— Anonymous

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

— Patanjali

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

— Nhat Hanh

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

— Thomas Jefferson

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

— Milarepa

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

— Peter of Alcantara

Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

— Ted Chiang

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much…

— Ted Simon

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

— Gautama Buddha

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed…

— Alan Lightman

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by…

— John Green

Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do…

— Anonymous

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards…

— Martin Luther

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

— Dan Flavin

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who…

— Pope Francis