Hasty Quotes

85 quotes by 75 authors

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
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… — Jacques Barzun
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon… — Thomas Malory
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. — William Shakespeare
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty… — Thomas Huxley
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. — William Penn
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. — Hideki Yukawa
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
The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things… — St. Vincent
Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to… — Emil Kraepelin
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. — Wilkie Collins
I don't believe in hasty marriages. — Anna Held
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so… — Agnes de Mille
Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. — Yi Sun-sin

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