Contemplating Quotations

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

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.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives...

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

We become what we habitually contemplate

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

There is no art without contemplation.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

We become what we contemplate.

Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.