Contemplating Quotes

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Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.… — Antony Gormley
It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The… — Donald Judd
Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We… — Sri Chinmoy
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. — Thomas Troward
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,… — Orville Dewey
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar — Dean Cavanagh
I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to… — Ted Simon
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to… — Edward Everett Hale
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. — John Maynard Keynes
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. — William Penn
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling… — T.C. Boyle
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. — Niels Bohr
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be… — Ajahn Chah
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But… — Ruth Stout
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who… — Gaston Rebuffat
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container… — Hildegard of Bingen
Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to… — Rajneesh
There is a ripple effect to the gospel thatâ€™s inevitable. Thereâ€™s a ripple effect to true grace. It doesnâ€™t lead us to only sit and… — Louie Giglio

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