Act According Quotes

38 quotes by 32 authors

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of… — Takeda Nobushige
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason. — Thomas Jefferson
There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two… — Leo Tolstoy
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation. — Danila Kozlovsky
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. — Simone de Beauvoir
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. — Aleister Crowley
Do not be fooled by one who recites the QurÃ¢n. His recitation is but speech â€“ but look to those who act according to it. — Umar
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare… — Charles Grandison Finney
Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions. — Lin Biao
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will… — R. D. Laing
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If… — Soren Kierkegaard
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not… — Evo Morales
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to,… — Joseph Butler
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt

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