What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Votes: 5
Meister EckhartContemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. Votes: 4
Owen FelthamContemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. Votes: 4
Gabriel MarcelContemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. Votes: 3
Robert A. HeinleinContemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness. Votes: 3
Hakuin EkakuContemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. Votes: 3
Thomas MertonContemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding. Votes: 3
John of RuysbroeckFew people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Votes: 3
Randolph BourneHim that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. Votes: 3
John MiltonVice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. Votes: 3
James HarringtonContemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it Votes: 3
Tryon EdwardsLearn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Votes: 3
Marian Wright EdelmanEnjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. Votes: 2
Renzo PianoSelf knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. Votes: 0
Cyril of JerusalemI prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacCOMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceSpirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillThe senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciA person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. Votes: 0
Mary Euphrasia PelletierThe man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. Votes: 0
Ananda CoomaraswamyThere are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. Votes: 0
Arthur PhillipsWisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. Votes: 0
Jeremy NarbyFaith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyHumor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. Votes: 0
Christian MorgensternI practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything. Votes: 0
Goldie HawnThe ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. Votes: 0
Josef PieperAmid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. Votes: 0
Thomas ColeThe future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. Votes: 0
Geoffrey EltonInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowI live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeThe initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature. Votes: 0
Irenaeus of LyonsThe law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground. Votes: 0
Wayne DyerWhat is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever. Votes: 0
E. LockhartEach human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoWhoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. Votes: 0
Pope Gregory ITaste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself Votes: 0
Wayne DyerThere is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. Votes: 0
Lin YutangIf there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. Votes: 0
John Dos Passos