Ponder
To weigh.
To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.
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Ponder Quotations
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
Roger Penrose
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
Margaret Cavendish
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
Anna Howard Shaw
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
Johannes Brahms
Ponder Translations
ponder in Latin is cogito, consulto, consulo, penso
ponder in Spanish is ponderar
ponder in Swedish is grunna, grubbla, fundera
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