William Wordsworth Quotes

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

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.

The time for thinkers has come.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

I'm a thinker.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

Every thought is an afterthought.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

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

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.