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Quotes About Pondering

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
~ Ian Hacking
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.
~ Maira Kalman
.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..
~ Boris Kovalík
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
~ Douglas Adams
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
~ Paul Tillich
Every thought is an afterthought.
~ Hannah Arendt
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
~ Blaise Pascal
My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.
~ Steve Weinstein
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
~ Stephen King, The Gunslinger
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
~ Paul Di Filippo
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.
~ Frank Pierson
Philosophy is the reflection of reflective mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Wondering leads to writing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Slow down. Life is crossing the road.
~ Debasish Mridha
A question impresses me more than an answer.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
~ Marty Rubin
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
~ John Keats
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus Christ has already come to suffer in the hands of men and He shall least entertain anyone who will disturb Him in eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God! If you want to join Him, ponder!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The longer the waiting, the longer the wondering.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita