Quotes About Meditation

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.