Quotes About Contemplate

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning. "We love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it," wrote Goethe, and perhaps he is right. But I am not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live. I don't want to yearn for blue things, and God forbid for any "blueness." Above all, I want to stop missing you.

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

Can a man think out his life, or must he just tag along?

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

So you're going to think about it?

B — Breathe! Do I need to pause, step back, and look at this situation more objectively?

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.

I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

mind," he said. "I'll just get it then.

Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

To think: to encircle an unthought.

A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.

we're beholden not to look away from the things we fear or revere.

when the science community shuts its collective mind to what Mother Nature might do because it's just too scary to contemplate, as some have done with Ebola virus transmission, we surely won't be better prepared for the next biologic curveball, whatever it happens to be.

It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.