(138 quotes found)
“Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it”
Tryon Edwards
“Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The willing contemplation of vice is vice”
Arabian Proverb
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.”
William Penn
“What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”
Meister Eckhart
“Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.”
William Butler Yeats
“When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation - 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) - A mode of proving that the earth turned round In a most natural whirl called "G”
Lord Byron
“Of the twenty-four hours a day,Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
