Contemplation Quote by William Godwin

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

— John Locke

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

— John Locke

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

— Sharon Begley

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source…

— Victor Hugo

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

— James Russell Lowell

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

— Paulo Coelho

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases…

— John Herschel

“I once heard someone explain thoughts as this: we, as human beings, think that we're thinking.  Not true.  Most of the time, we're remembering. …

— Kamal Ravikant

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work,…

— Victor Hugo

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

— Ramana Maharshi