Pondered Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the… — Max Muller
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen… — Sinclair Lewis
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will… — James Dwight Dana
Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. — Max Lucado
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence. — Henning Mankell
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the… — Robert Breault
Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing… — Greg Child
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field… — Wendell Berry
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are… — Gustave Flaubert
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well. — Miyamoto Musashi
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not… — Albert Camus
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should… — Frances E. Willard
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the… — Khalil Gibran
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut. — Artie Lange
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of… — William Morris
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. — Edgar Allan Poe

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