Quotes About Pondering

Apropos of the observatory

Books think for me.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

And although I wanted to think about him, it would have to wait until the next day, perhaps until I was on the subway, where I seem to have most of my more interesting thoughts.

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Maybe I'd think that, too,

Sadness indeed paves to a philosophical thinking.

Your memory straddles my mind.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

So the reader can imagine my state of mind when

Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

Lik the tree falling in the forest, says Ira. Huh? You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound? Howie considers this. Is it a pine forest, or oak? What's the difference? Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

submission. Is that the world you want to live in?

Sorry, Your Honor; I was just thinking. Too much of that can be dangerous.

Num?rul sufletelor este finit sau infinit?

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?