Definition of Contemplate

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Contemplate

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.

To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.

To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

Related Definitions:

All, As, At, Attention, Care, Consider, Contingent, Continued, Deliberate, Forward, Have, In, Intend, Look, Meditate, Muse, On, Or, Ponder, Probable, Purpose, Reflect, Regard, Study, Think, To, View, With

Contemplate Quotations

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny Depp

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony Blair

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil

Contemplate Translations

contemplate in French is contemplez, contempler, contemplons, contemplent
contemplate in Italian is considerare
contemplate in Latin is prospicio

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