“Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.”
Turkish Proverb
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
“Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.”
Bible
“I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.”
Johannes Brahms
“I am pondering the paper cut on my knuckle. This is not an education. I am in daycare.”
Zoe Trope
