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Contemplating Quotes by John Herschel
- [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…
- Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a…
More Contemplating Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or… — Tony Blair
- It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to… — William S. Burroughs
- Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. — Thomas Aquinas
- That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity — Ambrose Bierce
- It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
- He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others — Milarepa
- When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — Thomas Paine