Quotes About Pondering

Strange, hearing you just now ... my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth.

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference

I don't know what to do with my future.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.

The question is what is the question?

I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.

Abigail, meanwhile, brooded in the backseat. Finally she announced, "None of this makes sense.

Before you speak or act, first and foremost try to chew the cud within you i.e. think and have a rethink reflectively before you talk or act. I mean, do consider and reconsider whatever you intend to do or say before daring to talk or act in any matter or case. For, doing just that is probable to positively influence your speech or action.

What is known as "wisdom" is ultimately only a perpetual "thinking it over," i.e., non-action as first impulse.

concerning." He paused, tilting

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking.

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

He thought of nothing he could say.

I am pondering what you have said to me. I wonder if I have the soul of a slave. I cannot join them, so I must sit apart.

Just before she Gertrude Stein died she asked, `What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case, what is the question?

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.