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Quotes about Pondering

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
— AA Milne
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.
— Confucius
Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.
— Judith Durham
Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.
— Cicero
Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.
— Virginia Woolf
But suddenly it would come over her, if he were with me now what would he say? Some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning—indeed they did.
— Virginia Woolf
Here are the dead poets, still musing, still pondering, still questioning the meaning of existence.
— Virginia Woolf
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
— Charles Dickens
I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.
— Charles Dickens
I am saying nothing.
— Charles Dickens
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot