Contemplation Quotes

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. (Niklaus Wirth)
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. View quote
Dodie Smith
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. View quote
Jean Arp
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. View quote
Auguste Rodin
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. View quote
Jane Smiley
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. View quote
Samuel Alexander
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible. (Gabriel Marcel)
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. View quote
Baldassare Castiglione
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. View quote
John Jay Chapman
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. View quote
John Dos Passos
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. View quote
Ross Perot
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. View quote
Lin Yutang
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. View quote
Francis Bacon
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. View quote
Ali
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one. (Juan Donoso Cortés)
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. View quote
Meister Eckhart
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. View quote
Renzo Piano