Contemplation Quotes
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. (Quote by - Diane Arbus)
Assuming the spark does not happen, it can go on much longer, .. Nobody wants it to stop. We don't want to contemplate sharply higher rates and prices. The Japanese and Chinese don't want to contemplate it either. (Quote by - Jay Bryson)
We originally contemplated the casino hotel to be a mid-to-high-end property. We've repositioned that to be very much a luxury hotel. (Quote by - Alan Feldman)
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. (Quote by - Daniel Fried)
O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston area. This is a double whammy for the industry it's an amazing thing to contemplate. (Quote by - Bob Slaughter)
These proposals for the national park system are unconscionable. It's hard to believe anyone could even contemplate drafting something this extreme. (Quote by - Craig Obey)
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same. (Quote by - Clive James)
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months. (Quote by - Bob Bowlsby)
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. (Quote by - Dr. Richard Selzer)
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. (Quote by - John Milton)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate. . (Quote by - Rig Veda)
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet. (Quote by - St. Thomas Aquinas)
When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return. (Quote by - Geoff Hoon)
Anybody who's contemplating voting for him is not likely to vote for the current mayor. (Quote by - Christopher Munger)
In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police. (Quote by - Ruben Aguilar)
From the True Guru, I obtained spiritual wisdom; I contemplate the Lord's essence. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Bridget is adventurous. Not many 15-year-olds leave home to spend a semester abroad. She has also shown creativity, taking the Fresh Writers program to areas not contemplated by us. She approached the administration at Shaker Height High School and is getting high school credit for putting together and executing her own author tour from Cleveland to Buffalo to Syracuse. (Quote by - Bill Jelen)
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. (Quote by - Buddha)
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series. (Quote by - Graeme Smith)
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. . (Quote by - Yajur Veda)
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
That in itself will make the bank sufficiently cautious to leave them unlikely to be contemplating rate cuts any time soon. (Quote by - Stephen Toplis)
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Quote by - David Hume)
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
The universe or void is an everlasting ball of chaotic contemplations all trying to reach a level of happiness that is infinitely expanding. (Quote by - Austin Rappaport)
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
One can become whatever one wants to be [if one constantly contemplates on the object of desire with faith]. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Our view is the entire World Trade Center is a sacred precinct, a place of dignity, a place of aspiration, a place of contemplation, and of hope and memory. (Quote by - Richard Meier)
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. (Quote by - Auguste Rodin)
He was standing there for a good minute or two, contemplating to do it or not. Next thing you know, he just took off running and jumped off. (Quote by - Will Smith)
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The real solution to this crisis is a true and meaningful Nuclear Free Zone in the Middle East, not one which is paid lip service to. It is a vital first step towards removing all nuclear proliferation risks in the region, as well as providing the essential security guarantees from nuclear weapons states outside the region. If we don't seriously contemplate this option then the world will, as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan pointed out a few days ago, lurch from nuclear crisis to nuclear crisis. (Quote by - William Peden)
Having admitted that he did wrong, there's still the critical question, 'Do we want to launch the single most serious constitutional process that our system contemplates?' And the answer to that, in my view, is no. (Quote by - Charles Ruff)
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve. (Quote by - Dirk Benedict)
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation. (Quote by - John Milton)
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. (Quote by - Don Mazankowski)
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
There's no contemplative process. She doesn't understand things that are so obvious to us. (Quote by - Xavier Amador)
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. (Quote by - Buddha)
When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and selfdiscipline. (Quote by - Contributed by: Dan Hansen)
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other. (Quote by - William Penn)
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pr. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We count on the city for fire service, but we've contemplated starting our own fire service in the past. (Universities) have two options: you either work with the city or you start your own fire service. (Quote by - Dennis Bailey)
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. (Quote by - Dodie Smith)
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
We're not contemplating any change for our competitions. (Quote by - Bob Combs)
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. (Quote by - David Hume)
Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
It's a matter of national security. Not only do we have to contemplate other natural events that could be of a similar scale of Katrina, but we also have to think of other manmade events. (Quote by - Dan Bartlett)
He gave no indication he was contemplating such a move. There was nothing unusual in his demeanor. (Quote by - Alexandra Milenov)
I think we only had one of those, years ago, and we haven't contemplated it at all, since. Actually, tipping fees haven't been around all that long -- since about the mid 1990s. Prior to that, the entire cost was taken up by property tax. (Quote by - Bob Harper)
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. (Quote by - Arthur Phillip)
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation b. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
O Lord, You are Your Own Glorious Praise. You Yourself speak it; You Yourself hear it and contemplate it. You Yourself are the Jewel, and You are the Appraiser. You Yourself are of Infinite Value. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Bankruptcy is totally out of the question. We have never contemplated it. (Quote by - Bob Lutz)
The secretary did not exercise her discretion lawfully in the manner contemplated by this court's directive. (Quote by - Dexter Douglass)
A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life. (Quote by - Tom Brokaw)
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. (Quote by - Charles Gounod)
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston area. This is a double whammy for the industry - it's an amazing thing to contemplate. (Quote by - Bob Slaughter)
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. (Quote by - Chamfort)
So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, .. Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses. (Quote by - Dan Savage)
That has to be built out so that downtown can thrive. The worst thing that could happen to lower Manhattan would be for that hole in the ground to exist for another decade or two, and that's what Silverstein has contemplated even if all goes according to his plan. (Quote by - Daniel Doctoroff)
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. (Quote by - William Penn)
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. (Quote by - Ann Coulter)
I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we intend to sell the team to in conjunction with signing the lease. But it's very important that we sign a lease contemplated by the stadium agreement. We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved. (Quote by - Bob DuPuy)
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. (Quote by - Chamfort)
I think the lesson to be learned is not so much for investors, but for the companies who contemplate breaking the rules: this is what will happen if you break the rules, at least, in Singapore. (Quote by - Donald Gimbel)
