Quotes about Ponder

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

For this we must believe: that the mind is never seriously aroused to desire and ponder the life to come unless it be previously imbued with contempt for the present life. Indeed, there is no middle ground between these two: either the world must become worthless to us or hold us bound by intemperate love of it.

Think it over, think it under.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?