Contemplative Quotes · Page 6

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not…

— Johannes Tauler

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would…

— Charles Lamb

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social…

— Duane Elgin

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Tiny Titans: A Haiku Ants toil with intent, Embrace chores they loathe and love, Unified spirits.”

— Amogh Swamy

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward…

— Stephen Shore

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as…

— Bertrand Russell

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often…

— Derek Jacobi

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems…

— George Sand

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

— Tilden Edwards

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is…

— Thomas Merton

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative…

— Sara Maitland

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…

— Richard Courant

“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and…

— T.C. Boyle

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is…

— Fernando Pessoa

Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces…

— Bryan Beller

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost…

— Diana Gabaldon

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's…

— Madonna Ciccone

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the…

— G. H. Hardy

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count…

— Gwen John

Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice…

— Lee L Jampolsky

If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But…

— Ninian Smart