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Definition of Ponder

Ponder

  1. To weigh.
  2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
  3. To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.

Ponder Quotations

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
J. C. Watts

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 there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
Emma Roberts

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
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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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