Wander Quotes

839 quotes by 636 authors

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught… — Winston Churchill
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake… — James Russell Lowell
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. — James Russell Lowell
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be… — Joseph Addison
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He… — William Cowper
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. — Richard Hovey
There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy. — Unknown Author
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters… — Edmund Burke
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude,… — Edward Abbey
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. — Samuel Rogers
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the… — Freya Stark
We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially… — Peter McWilliams
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it… — Hugh Prather
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on… — Ingmar Bergman
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden

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