Contemplation Quotes
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.
— Bryant McGill
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
— Pope Gregory I
One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.
— Elijah Muhammad
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
Writing is a form of contemplation.
— Linda A. Tancs
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.
— Elizabeth Prettejohn
Who doth molest my contemplation?
— William Shakespeare
Contemplation of the stupidity which deems happiness possible almost made Voltaire happy.
— Voltaire
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
— Henry David Thoreau
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
— Saint Augustine
The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
— Samuel Alexander
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
— Robert McNamara
Music is the living God in our bosoms.
— Richard Wagner
The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.
— Victor Hugo
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
— Hermann Hesse
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
— Friedrich Schiller
I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.
— Damien Echols
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
— Gary Shteyngart
Amid those scenes of solitude ... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
— Thomas Cole
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
— George Gillespie
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
— Stephen Leacock
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
— James Harrington
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
— Laurence Gonzales
By thinking of things you could understand them.
— James Joyce
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
— E. Lockhart
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
— George Santayana
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
— Orison Swett Marden
A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
— Rachel Kushner
A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action
— M. Scott Peck
An individual excels where the institution fails.
— Joel T. McGrath
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
— Meister Eckhart
Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
— Kahlil Gibran
No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
— Ernest Holmes
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
— Lin Yutang
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.
— Helen Greaves
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
— Salman Rushdie
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
— Wayne Dyer
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
— Paulo Coelho
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[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.
— Anthony John Patrick Kenny
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Perhaps ... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.
— Sylvia Boorstein
We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.
— Pope Gregory I
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
— Christian Morgenstern
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
— George Santayana
Awakening of intelligence into awareness,Contemplation and realization is the sole purpose of #life. — Gian Kumar
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
— Geoffrey Elton
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.
— Kenneth Rexroth
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
— Alexander Herzen
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.
— John Mason Neale
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
— David Malpass
When the last leaf falls,what will die within us? — Sheniz Janmohamed
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
— Pope John Paul II
Formal education opens the world to you; contemplation and reflection open yourself to you.
— Debasish Mridha
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
— Anthony S. Maulucci
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
— Isaac D'Israeli
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
— William Golding
Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.
— Pat Conroy
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Thomas Aquinas
In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Work without contemplation is never enough.
— Douglas V. Steere
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe