Quotes about Contemplation
Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Show a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
— Anonymous
I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar - what are called the 'daily offices' of the church.
— Jay Parini
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler
At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
— Frank Herbert
I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
— Frank Herbert
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.
— Frank Herbert
Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.
— Frank Herbert
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
— Karl Rahner
I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.
— Ricky Gervais
Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
— Claudio Ranieri
She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.
— Lydia Millet
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
— Madeleine L'Engle