Contemplation Quotes

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

Life, Power, Rather

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful, Once, Pleasure

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Time, Women

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

Life, Humanity, Silence

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

Action, Shall, Reap

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
Sri Chinmoy

Art, Meditation, Divine

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Beauty, Truth

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Men, Long

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 Lebowitz

Nature, Forget, Words

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

Life, Live, Often

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil

Faith, Reality, Made

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart

Love, Takes, Pours

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Good, Great, Writing

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Single, Before, After

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Else, Often

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
Bell Hooks

Life, Words, Service

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Art, Mind

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Diane Arbus

Mind, Action, Hand

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
John Jay Chapman

Thinking, Goodness, Victims

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

Experience, Few, Less

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim

Sadness, Through, Thought

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.
Eliot Spitzer

Place, Reflection, National

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
Ai Weiwei

Nature, Philosophy, Cannot

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
Sarah McLachlan

Nothing, Happen, Next

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
Jacob Bronowski

Action, Grasped

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
Jane Smiley

Life, Beauty, Horse

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Samuel Alexander

May, Speak, Last

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian

Character, Mind, Matter

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel

Home, Wisdom, Highest

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
John Dos Passos

Special, Hell, Works

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