Quotes About Pondering

I'm slow with a new idea, and want to think it over alone, where I'm sure it's the idea and not the man that's getting me.

She sat for a few minutes in the company of her bitter regrets...

For a questioner, it's important to spend time with challenging questions instead of trying to answer them right away. By "living with" a question, thinking about it and then stepping away from it, allowing it to marinate, you give your brain a chance to come up with the kinds of fresh insights and What If possibilities that can lead to breakthroughs.

A question can reside in the mind for a long time—maybe forever—without being spoken to anyone.

I cross my arms. 'Seriously? That's the answer you're going with? First quantum physics and now nowhere and everywhere?

Dwelling. Miles repeated the word to himself. It was a strange word.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I sat still, my head down, staring at a spot between the numbered tiles. I could feel his inquisitive brown eyes on me. Finally, I shrugged and said, 'I don't know.

La sagesse procurait rarement des réponses, elle se contentait de redéfinir les questions.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever. Hávamál

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

She ruminated, wondering in terms of ration, quotient, multiplicand, root, power, infinity, surd.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

I see you are philosopher by nature.

I'm sorry,' said Jerott, his eyes elsewhere. What was the attraction here, in God's name? Not the little woman in the stained gown, surely? Or the plain fourteen-year-old who had been so courageous the night Trotty died?

I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.

What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.

No, said Arthur, no, he added thoughtfully. No, he added again, even more thoughtfully. What? he said at last.

For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

A five-week sand blizzard? said Deep Thought haughtily. You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

There's only ever been one good answer to that question "Why?" and perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There's room for it. "Why?" doesn't have to be the last word, it isn't even the last letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended, "V W X Why? Z," but "V W X Why not?" Don't ask stupid questions. —