Contemplation Quotes
533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and…
— William Wordsworth
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
— Hermann Hesse
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true…
— Unknown Author
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God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and…
— Charles Brent
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It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our…
— Ole Hallesby
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There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
— John Evelyn
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Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing.…
— Rajneesh
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and…
— Salman Rushdie
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