Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself. — Remy de Gourmont
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate… — Ajahn Sumedho
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds,… — Euripides
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant… — Carl Jung
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to… — Plato
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. — Robert Frost
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. — Gautama Buddha
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… — Robert Southey
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. — Sathya Sai Baba
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name… — Sathya Sai Baba
Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another… — Daniel H. Pink
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. — Daniel Fried
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. — Raymond Blanc
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. — Napoleon Bonaparte
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which… — Thomas Aquinas
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate. — Pythagoras
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the… — Rachel Carson
Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance.… — Ken Robinson
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature. — Akiane Kramarik
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity,… — Nicole Brossard

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