Ponder Quotes

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepest secret.

And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.

Here is a quick test:

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

It will do both of you good.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Life is a time span where people mostly do not see the wood for the trees, wondering what may be the accurate answers to the numerous questions that they have assembled throughout their life, how they might prevent their perception from contradicting the reality of the world of their daily experience and how they can find out the actual standards to measure the soundness of their assumptions. Whichever way, no matter how they ponder, they have no other choice than keeping on looking for Waldo or for Wally. (“How high is too far?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
― Stephen Vincent Benét

“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There are so many people whose minds do not belong to them. There are so many people whose thoughts have been purchased by people. There are so many people who have made people kings and queens of their thought. There are so many people who cannot sleep because of people. There are so many people whose lives are a small percentage of their own self and a greater percentage of others. When the offenses of people occupy your mind, your mind becomes the offenses of people instead of your own mind. To have your own mind and to be your own self, free your mind!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the best choice. Sometimes, you may take a step forward only to notice that a step backwards could have been better; and sometimes, you may only come to a later understanding that stepping aside could have been a great choice, but in all, before you take a step, ponder! The footprint of whatever step is what matter and it must be distinctive”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“If it does not teach, let it inspire. If it does not inspire, let it teach.”
― Monaristw

“We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone

“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are reckless, careless, and foolish.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Where the Pandemic Started

“Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Collect the unusual so you have things to ponder. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tiny
literature under the big words.”
― Harken Headers, Health & Not Screwing It Up

“If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you succeed you party. When you fail you ponder. Greatness comes from pondering.”
― Tony Robbins

“While Eastern meditation tries to get people to empty their minds, biblical meditation focuses on our filling our minds—and our mouths—with the truth. Joshua 1:8 says, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” One of the definitions for the Hebrew word “meditate” is “to mutter.” Meditating involves repeating the words God has said out loud. As Joshua was told, this regular repetition of what God had said is the key to our ability to do the Word.”
― Bill Johnson, Strengthen Yourself in the Lord: How to Release the Hidden Power of God in Your Life

“Too often contemplation is the excuse for inaction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People often regret their words but rarely their silence”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“To pray is to ponder.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Can you see me inside out?
My soul and not my garter?
My screams and not my heels?”
― Alexandre Pierre Albert, Polaro!D, #1

“It is not our contemplation of life. Rather, it is the living out of our lives so that we have something to contemplate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The day comes with a few things to ponder on, but the night rains upon the mind a thousand thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink on paper.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Who are you following? Everybody is following somebody-or at least someone. Put another way, we’re all disciples. The question isn’t, Am I a disciple? It’s Who or what am I a disciple of?”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

“The weight of memories, they are difficult to escape.”
― Daniel Varona, Shadows of Reality

“The moon can only shine so bright, which is why it needs the stars to help it.”
― Daniel Varona, Shadows of Reality