CONTEMPLATION

Related Subjects: Meditation, Reflection, Reverie, Study, Thought

1. A contemplative life has more the appearance of piety than any other; but the divine plan is to bring faith into activity and exercise.—RICHARD CECIL
   

2. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.—DESCARTES
   

3. Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food—the way to get life out of it.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

4. All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.—EMERSON, Lectures and Biographical Studies
   

5. Let us unite contemplation with action. In the harmony of the two, lies the perfection of character. They are not contradictory and incompatible, but mutually helpful to each other. Contemplation will strengthen for action, and action sends us back to contemplation, and thus the inner and outer life will be harmoniously developed.—SAMUEL FOOTE
   

6. Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
   A mind serene for contemplation.—JOHN GAY, Fables
   

7. He that contemplates hath a day without night.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
   

8. Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him:
   How he jets under his advanced plumes.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night