Quotes About Pondering

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

The woman and the white-haired old man looked at the clock, as if it might tell them something about their situation and what they were supposed to do next.

His relevance derives overwhelmingly from the questions he asked and from his insistence that they cannot be easily dispensed with in the ways that people often think. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

apropos of nothing.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

Constantly he went back over the evidence of his memories.

Logic: yes, where is logic? Where is it, for instance, in the next moment of my story?

I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian's unfinished sentence: 'So, for instance, if Tony . . .' I knew I couldn't change, or mend, anything now.

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

Can it be, I wondered, that life without her is so dull as this?

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Who knows why men do anything?

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.