(138 quotes found)
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
Diane Arbus
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour”
Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Auguste Rodin
“I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.”
John Mayer
“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.”
Emile Durkheim
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action”
Meister Eckhart
“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
David Hume
“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the”
Ross Perot
“My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.”
Francis Picabia
