Contemplation Quotes - Page 4

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation