Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights… — M.F.K. Fisher
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own… — Thomas Merton
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. — Robert Sheckley
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an… — Tom Robbins
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. — Niklaus Wirth
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 great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the… — Ken Wilber
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. — Unknown Author
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its… — James Joseph Sylvester
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man… — Midge Decter
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out… — Hakim Bey
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love. — Pope Gregory I
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I
We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action. — Pope Gregory I
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative… — Isidore of Seville
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they… — Anthony of Padua
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make… — Bhagat Singh
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. — Meister Eckhart
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose… — John Stokes

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