Quotes about Contemplation
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
— Pope John Paul II
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
— Albert Einstein
Ask yourself to slow down.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Philosophy can make people sick.
— Aristotle
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
— Oscar Wilde
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
— Marcus Aurelius
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
— Marty Rubin
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius