Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles… — Caspar David Friedrich
For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way,… — Unknown Author
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… — John Herschel
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds… — Eckhart Tolle
This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past,… — Milan Kundera
Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate… — Tony Levin
I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already… — Leonard Ravenhill
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of… — Geoff Hoon
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences — Robert Byrd
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. Theyre much better than eating real sausages and you dont have to contemplate half way through exactly whats inside… — Simon Cowell
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. — Dion Fortune
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

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