Quotes about Contemplation
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.
— William Wordsworth
So that almost a doubt within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God! I measure back the steps which I have trod
— William Wordsworth
Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.
— William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts, Bring sad thoughts to the mind." William Wordsworth
— William Wordsworth
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
— Winston Churchill
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
— Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
— Adrian Rogers
Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?
— Elie Wiesel
The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.
— Elizabeth George