Quotes About Contemplation

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Words writ in waters.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.