Quotes About Pondering

Oh, law! This morning I look one day older than God and a year younger than water! Last night I didn't close my eyes. At five o'clock this morning I was still awake in my bed, turning and tossing and thinking about Big D." "Dallas?" "Dying, precious—Big D is death.

stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

And while his brain kept whirring with the problems of a unified theory, his body became frail and thin, wrinkles fell over him like elephant skin, and began to slouch, as if with each new day he was carrying a slightly heavier pack on his back.

Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

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Finding the answer to an eternal question creates bigger questions.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Philosophy is the prelude to death.

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Your thoughts are not yours until when you start pondering upon them.

Often, Bessie would reply, "Child, I don't think that's a question anyone on this earth has the true answer for. The best advice I can give you is to keep reading.

Hild put together her information like a broken redcrest pavement and pondered the picture.

Silence while we both thought our thoughts.

How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

It is the questions they love, the questions they say that lead to a state of wonder. Not the solutions. Not the beliefs.

He felt like a satrap amid all those acres of sheets. But this morning it was different. He was simply lying there and adding up the future like a sum; and whichever way he added it, it came out wrong.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.

use questions to raise questions

Am I filled to overflowing with love for Jesus Christ as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion to Him? Does He ever find me pondering the time when I cared only for Him? Is that where I am now, or have I chosen man's wisdom over true love for Him? Am I so in love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me? Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure how much service I should give Him?

Can criticism then, as criticism, solve the great questions, or can it merely pose them? At the beginning of knowledge we believe the former. But the more we know, the more certain we become of the latter. So long as we hope, we call the secret a problem.