Contemplation quotes

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◆ A solid foundation is nothing without contemplation and strategies.

- Wazim Shaw100

◆ Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

- Nicolas De Chamfort99

◆ I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

- John Mayer99

◆ Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

- Marian Wright Edelman99

◆ Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

- Dodie Smith99

◆ There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

- Arthur Phillip99

◆ The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

- Gabriel Marcel99

◆ If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

- Fran Lebowitz99

◆ I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

- David Knopfler99

◆ Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

- James Harrington99

◆ An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

- Eduard Hanslick99

◆ Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

- Randolph Bourne99

◆ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

- Aristotle99

◆ But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

- Samuel Alexander99