Hasty Quotes - Page 5

• A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.105, Penguin

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

  Laozi

  Light, Roots, Darkness

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• General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Patriotic, Sound

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

  James Madison

  Errors, Views, Superficial

  James Madison (1867). “Letters and Other Writings of James Madison”, p.277

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• Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Views, Clerks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

  Confucius

  Men, Middle, Rate

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

  David Perkins

  Thinking, Skills, Upkeep

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• Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

  Jacques Barzun

  Past, Judging, Style

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• Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

  William Penn

  Nature, Vow, Resolution

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.41

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• Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

  John Dryden

  Winter, Land, Wings

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400

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• Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Assessment, Agreement, People

  Message Of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI For The Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

  John Adams

  Passion, Errors, Prejudice

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.

  William Law

  Christian, Perseverance, Prayer

  William Law (1728). “A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection”, p.445

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• The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Unions, Results

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• On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

  Fidel Castro

  Impulsive

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