Quotes About Contemplation

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

What is reading but silent conversation?

You should read it, though there is much that is skip-worthy.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Books think for me.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

The less men think; the more they talk.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I hate funerals, and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.