Quotes About Thoughtlessness

This alleged Providence was the great subterfuge of maternal thoughtlessness.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. —CYRIL CONNOLLY

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

In fact – and with very few exceptions – when a man joins a party, he submissively adopts a mental attitude which he will express later on with words such as, 'As a monarchist, as a Socialist, I think that . . .' It is so comfortable! It amounts to having no thoughts at all. Nothing is more comfortable than not having to think.

We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

La ortodoxia equivale a no pensar, a no tener la necesidad de pensar. La ortodoxia es la inconsciencia (cap 5, primera parte - 1984)

If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.

As a typical Londoner, Gurcan had a high tolerance for random thoughtlessness; after all, if you live in the big city there's no point complaining that it's a big city, but even that tolerance has its limit and the name of that limit is 'taking the piss'.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Unanimity testifies to thoughtlessness, because in politics there are always arguments on both sides... political judgement should not be reflexive but deliberative.

Why was it that at every grown-up function, the exact same conversation had to take place? Sometimes Emily felt as if she could hand out scripts, to save everybody the trouble of thinking, except that there would be no point, because they weren't thinking--they were just saying the same things they'd said the last time.

to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

By the end we were lobotomised of all ability to think for ourselves. We were trained to live by instruction and learned to live without thought. The whole set-up meant no one could flourish as an individual – which was exactly the point. We were homogenised for the ease of others.

The passenger pigeon remained an emblem of natural bounty, but now it also represented the squandering of that bounty. In 1947 the conservationist Aldo Leopold dedicated a monument to the pigeon near the site of its greatest recorded nesting, at which hunters slaughtered 1.5 million birds. The plaque read: "This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.

It was the bruises on my lips that made me comprehend With what thoughtlessness I had kissed the rose

Varian, please. I didn't mean what I said.' 'Of course you didn't,' he said snidely. 'No one ever does. People always speak without thought. But it's amazing how much damage thoughtless words can wreak, isn't it?

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.