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Quotes About Pondering

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
~ George R. R. Martin
Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I spend a lot of time looking up.
~ Erica Goros
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
~ David Hume
What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?
~ Julian Barnes
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
~ Andrew Bird
I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
~ Steven Wright
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
~ Jean Cocteau
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
~ George Carlin
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
~ Steven Wright
I tried to think but nothing happened!
~ Curly Howard
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.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.
~ Janosch
Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.
~ Max Lucado
Wondering is a positive madness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
~ Paul Haggis
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
~ A. A. Milne
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
~ Mark Twain
Read less, study less, but think more
~ Leo Tolstoy
I need time every day to think.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is far more difficult to ask the right question than it is to find the correct answer.
~ Neil E. Clement
So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries...when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them.
~ Dana Gore