Quotes About Contemplation

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.