Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. — Daniel Fried
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that… — John F. Carlson
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are… — John F. Carlson
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are… — Luther Burbank
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could… — John Muir
The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form. — Pythagoras
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment — Pythagoras
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are… — Thomas Aquinas
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to… — Baldassare Castiglione
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they… — Pythagoras
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like… — Pico Iyer
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts. — Frederick Lenz
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. — Wu Cheng'en
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it. — Christmas Humphreys
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product… — Emile Durkheim
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. — Meister Eckhart
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. — Marian Wright Edelman
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. — Bell Hooks

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