Top 43 Action And Contemplation Quotes
#2. Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
Paulo Coelho
#3. Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#4. What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
#5. Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decter
#6. Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
Robert McNamara
#8. Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#9. A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action
M. Scott Peck
#10. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.
Aldous Huxley
#11. Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
Robert Sheckley
#12. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
Jacob Bronowski
#13. I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.
Don Cupitt
#14. 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
#15. There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
Albert Camus
#16. Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
James Harrington
#17. Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.
James Burgh
#18. The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
M. Scott Peck
#19. There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
Charles Baudelaire
#20. Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.
Aberjhani
#21. We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.
Pope Gregory I
#22. Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Owen Feltham
#23. Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.
Pope Gregory I
#24. In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
Mas Oyama
#25. Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#26. Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
Aldous Huxley
#27. Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
William Butler Yeats
#28. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.
Vincent De Paul
#30. What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one - contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.
George Sheehan
#31. I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Gautama Buddha
#33. Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
Thomas Merton
#34. Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it.
Melanie Benjamin
#35. Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.
Carlo Carretto
#36. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
Leonard Perlmutter
#37. I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Honore De Balzac
#38. Pope Gregory believed that successful pastoral leadership required a balance between the contemplation of the isolated ascetic and the action of the well-trained administrator.
Gregory The Great
#39. O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. Contemplation + action = breakthrough
Lada Ray
#42. Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
#43. Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
Robert A. Heinlein
