Definition of Contemplation
Contemplation
The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
Holy meditation.
The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
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Contemplation Quotations
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Lewis Mumford
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
Ross Perot
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Diane Arbus
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
Contemplation Translations
contemplation in French is contemplation
contemplation in German is Betrachtung
contemplation in Italian is considerazione
contemplation in Latin is contemplatio
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