Contemplation Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob…

— Juan Donoso Cortes

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be…

— Richard Russo

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

“Inside every pause lived a contemplation”

— Eric Jerome Dickey