Contemplation Quotes

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it