Quotes About Pondering

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.

There's a difference between remembering and thinking

Are we — um, does this mean —

THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.

Hmm. I don't know if that's a 'yes' or a 'go eat worms,'" Rollan admitted.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

there in bed, wondering why she hadn't moved out

somewhere. Then he turned serious.

He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.

You have to give it thought when you're changing your whole life.

sort of thing. Think you

think we've all

speak to me as to thy thinking As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words...

Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?

Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.

How should we live? someone asked me in a letter. I had meant to ask him the same question. 0 likes

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

What if I've been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?

When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?

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