Quotes About Pondering

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

another pull on the Bushmills. Shrugged. "I guess they figured

I gathered them on my stomach and waited for sleep. But sleep was busy elsewhere.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

I'm constantly thinking.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.