#thoughtless

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ↗

— John Dryden

#loquacity #thoughtlessness #contemporary

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#hour #humanity #i #i have learned #learned

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#because #evil #frightening #i #i think

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#thoughtfulness #thoughtlessness #experience

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#doctor #even #higher #his #ignorant

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#conforms #consistent #groove #pattern #person

He was my comfort. He was my solace. Nearly everything I had faced in my young life, I had gotten through because of him, because he was always there for me, with soft words and a tender heart. -Kiera Allen ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#confrontation #love #reminiscing #thoughtless #life

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. ↗

— Hannah More

#gives #least #like #little #love