Pondering Quotes

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter

If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray.

I never ponder counterfactuals.

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.