Quotes About Contemplation

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!