Quotes About Contemplation

thought itself is best understood as planning; even higher forms of thought, such as philosophy, the epitome of disembodied speculation, proceed, they argue, by hijacking algorithms originally developed to help us plan movements.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

I am haunted by waters.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.