Quotes About Contemplation

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

The numbers are things I don't like to reflect on or look back on.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's good for people who are more introspective, and it helps me get a better understanding of myself.

I've had to do some soul-searching at times. I reflect a lot, not on where I have been but where I want to go and how to get there.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I've always reflected on the game.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Reflection makes men cowards.