Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many… — Steve Jobs
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,… — Maurice Blanchot
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly… — Cassandra Clare
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond… — Juliet Marillier
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach… — John Green
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There… — Holly Black
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated… — Daniel H. Pink
Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,… — Fernando Pessoa
The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power… — Lloyd Alexander
I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags… — Karen Marie Moning
The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that,… — Paul Bowles
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love. — Julian of Norwich
If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill… — Laini Taylor
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if… — Oscar Wilde
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. — William Ernest Hocking
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ… — A B Simpson
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for… — Simone Weil
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain
The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain… — Stephen Jay Gould
I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I… — Nicki Minaj
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of… — Antony Gormley

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