J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

Silence is so accurate.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

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

Night is the mother of counsels.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.