#contemplate

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#extraordinary #intelligence #obvious #takes

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#improve #learn #less #mind #order

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. ↗

— John Pople

#back #contemplated #earlier #electronic #fundamental

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#far #foolish #greater #possibility #progress

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#better #better place #city #completely #contemplate

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #illuminate #inspirational #saint #shine

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. ↗

— James Buchan

#addiction #comfortable #contemplate #different #fact

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#also #any #central #contact #contemplated

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#awful #cause #contemplate #death #endless