Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants… — Henryk Skolimowski
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings. — Nhat Hanh
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
We become what we habitually contemplate — George Russell
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he… — A. E. Housman
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. — Caspar David Friedrich
I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in… — Dougray Scott
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
[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
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and… — James Madison
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
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then… — Thomas Troward
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
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter of Alcantara
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
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms

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