Quotes About Contemplation

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.