Quotes About Pondering

If someone asks me what I did last year, I can safely answer that I smoked.

Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really leads only to self-torture.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

If he has a last thought, if there is time for a last thought, it will simply be, So this is what a last thought is like.

Some days lasted forever, Phury thought much later. And when the sun went down, there was still no end to them.

and closed his eyes, thinking about it.      

stomach as he stood to the side.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? What's going to happen to me up ahead?

I wanted to know what 'IT' meant. 'Ah well' - Dean laughed - 'now you're asking me impon-de-rables - ahem!

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don't know what to do.

El hombre siempre tuvo una mente torcida y se pregunta mil porqués, dándose mil respuestas.