Welcome to our page dedicated to Contact Quotes, where we delve into the profound and inspiring words spoken by individuals throughout history on the theme of contact. Whether it be contact with nature, with others, or with the deepest recesses of our own souls, these quotes capture the essence of human connection in its myriad forms.
Contact, in its essence, is the meeting point of two worlds, the intersection where understanding is born, and empathy flourishes. From philosophers to poets, scientists to spiritual leaders, each has offered their unique perspective on the significance of contact in our lives. These words resonate across time and space, reminding us of the fundamental human need for connection and the transformative power it holds.
Below, you’ll find an array of quotes that touch upon the theme of contact, waiting to be explored and embraced. Whether you choose to ponder them quietly, share them with friends, or creatively incorporate them into your own artistic endeavors, let these quotes serve as sparks of inspiration, igniting a deeper appreciation for the beauty and complexity of human interaction.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Friedrich Nietzsche
We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things. Peter Berg
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Dale Carnegie
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour – if I believed in progress, I suppose that’s what I’d call it. Will Self
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen. Chamath Palihapitiya
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. Hu Shih
The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet. James Turrell
I don’t even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they’ll contact me. Christopher Knight
Every relationship that we have in our lives – our contact with each person, place, and event – serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way. Guy Finley
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. Whitney Houston
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Hans Hofmann
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. James Caan
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal’s memories of one day’s contact might well be reflected in the following day’s behavior. Dian Fossey
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. Jaron Lanier
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore. Eckhart Tolle
I am a spiritual person. I’m a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face. Bennet Omalu
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie ‘Contact,’ which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way. Nathan Myhrvold
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I’m always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one’s glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don’t see has become increasingly pronounced. Sloane Crosley
Most venture capitalists won’t read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. Guy Kawasaki
It’s like the human body. What a tremendous organism. It actually craves contact. It likes contact. It craves it, as opposed to a car. If you backed into a brick wall, that would cause at least $2,000 worth of damage. It doesn’t have the ability to repair itself or callus over, but the human body does. Jim Harbaugh
I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. Yves Saint Laurent
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times. LeBron James
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. Elias Canetti
I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs. Kanye West
Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don’t even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine. Claire Messud
Politics is a contact sport. Steve Chabot
Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn’t see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager. Trevor Noah
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace. Frans de Waal
We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn’t get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that’s not being used any more. Wim Hof
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. Mark Zuckerberg
There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don’t think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way. Indra Nooyi
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. Bob Schaffer
When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end. Diego Maradona
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. James G. Frazer
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Peter Drucker
What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers’ contact book. Most consumers don’t want that to happen and don’t know it’s happening. Kamala Harris
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. Marvin Sapp
I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school. Lando Norris
I think we’ve lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don’t expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that’s a great loss. Martha Nussbaum
I’ve had ample contact with lawyers, and I’m convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. Wilson Mizner
I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go – there were no contact lenses in 1957. Geoffrey Boycott
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan. Tadao Ando
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there. George J. Mitchell
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche
It took years of psychotherapy before I even considered dating. I lost weight, replaced my glasses with contact lenses and felt a lot more confident. But I find it really hard to hold down a relationship. Anne Hegerty
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Marc Chagall
Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Keith Jackson
When you make music, you’re in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories. Jared Leto
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. Ram Dass
It’s hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn’t yet been duplicated by technology. Paul Graham
I woke up one day and there were loads of calls on my phone. My best friend was like: bro, go to Drake’s Instagram. So I went and saw my big head on there, a picture and a caption or whatever, and it was ‘Top Boy’ related. Long story short: we got in contact and had a few conversations about him being a big fan of the show. Ashley Walters
The one thing in the world that I can’t do without is my glasses. I don’t really care about my laptop, I never answer my phone, and I don’t care about trainers and stuff. But I’m pretty blind without my glasses or contact lenses. Lucy Bronze
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. Cameron Diaz
It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for. Jocko Willink
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life. George Edward Woodberry
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions. Maurizio Cattelan
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience. Judd Nelson
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
I can’t even talk to someone and make eye contact. Chrissy Costanza
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body. Muhammad Iqbal
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using. Marianne Williamson
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. Magnus Carlsen
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap. Martin Rees
The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It’s such a huge part of who we are. Millicent Simmonds
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. Carlos Alvarez
That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum. Cyrus Broacha
They didn’t train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really. Michelle Rodriguez
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Albert Bushnell Hart
When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments. Thomas Heatherwick
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. Regina Brett
It’s a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That’s why it’s a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are. Betty White
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. Heinrich Heine
One thing I always do in the huddle, pre-snap, is make eye contact. Jameis Winston
I like getting to the meat of things. You can’t get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact. Larry King
We derive so much of our self-confidence and validation from Instagram. Just imagine one day Instagram gets deleted like all of your friends who you think you have on social media, all these likes and comments just disappear, what are we left with? We have stopped valuing human relationships and contact. Ananya Panday
Insurance suffers traditionally from a lack of contact with customers. Thomas Buberl
I’m old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it’s important. Giovanni Ribisi
Women were very, very good at ‘Pong’. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing ‘Pong’ was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact. Nolan Bushnell
Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she’s across the room and still making eye contact with you. Chandler Parsons
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Colin Powell
I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound. Jean-Michel Jarre
I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on. Anthony Hopkins
Crispy-skinned fish is an elusive thing. As soon as your filet makes contact with a hot pan, it wants to curl up, which leads to uneven cooking and floppy skin. Sohla El-Waylly
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. Paulo Coelho
I’ve never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that’s what I love to do, so I’m going to bring it. Reggie Lewis
It’s amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it. Emma Watson
I certainly believe that being in contact with one’s spirit and nurturing one’s spirit is as important as nurturing one’s body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. Laurence Fishburne
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. Sherry Turkle
It’s always important to stay in contact with the fans, because ultimately, if they weren’t there, I wouldn’t be here. It’s very, very important to spread the love. Ross Lynch
It was very much exaggerated, this information campaign, this sustained campaign against us. But if I may… Over the process of years, it will thaw out. I mean, just gradually through contact, through dialogue, through investment. Muammar al-Gaddafi
I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me. Gwyneth Paltrow
