Quotes about Pondering

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.

Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us — I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs — to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

Well now, I dunno