Quotes About Contemplation

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.