Hasty Quotes

• Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

  Publilius Syrus

  Repentance, Conclusion

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

  Publilius Syrus

  Judgement, Firsts, Steps

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• How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

  Daniel Webster

  Inspirational, Littles, Judgment

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• Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reading, Pride, Littles

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• I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

  Wilkie Collins

  Flames, Income, Adequate

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.786, e-artnow sro

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• Learn diligence before speedy execution.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Execution, Diligence, Application

  Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press

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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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• The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pain, People, Political

  Walter Bagehot, Ruth Dudley Edwards (1993). “The best of Bagehot”

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• No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Reality, Missing, Details

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• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  Robert Greene

  Patience, Fall, Ambition

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• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Enemy, Trying

  Annie Besant (1943). “Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant”

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Pride

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Patience, Smart, Evil

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.49, Penguin

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• Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.

  Decimus Laberius

  Repentance

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• Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

  Robert Plant

  Goodbye, Car, Boots

  "Robert Plant: the showman must go on" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Conclusion

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

  Moliere

  Men, Matrimony, Repent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), V. 5, 1922.

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• Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Reality, Complicated, Justification

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• After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.‎

  Charles Darwin

  Hope, Hard Work, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3038, Delphi Classics

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• Repentance follows hasty counsels.

  Publilius Syrus

  Repentance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 665-66, 1922.

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• I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much.

  John Muir

  Journey, Florida, Kentucky

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.10, e-artnow

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• But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor wise. There are infinite possibilities as there are infinite people and some matches are better than others...Just don't say that you'll die without the other one or that you'll never love again or that you're not whole-That's the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, hasty nonsense, and you know how well that turned out...Just don't be desperate about it. That's where souls go wrong, when they think they don't have choices. The heart must make choices.

  Leanna Renee Hieber

  Wise, Heart, Thinking

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Judgement, Blame

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