Contemplate Quotes

341 Contemplate quotes by 293 unique authors

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard… — Abraham Lincoln
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate… — Wayne Dyer
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we… — George Wald
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy
God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his… — John Cassian
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not… — Robert Boyle
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the… — David Lange
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life… — Eduard Suess
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the… — Martin Buber
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in… — Gertrude the Great
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance… — Unknown Author
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if… — Rowan Williams
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it… — Aristotle
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never… — Jay Smith
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of… — Richard Lindzen
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact.… — Rajneesh
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes… — Rajneesh
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in… — Thomas Merton
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs

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