Heedless Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.… — Marcel Proust
Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others… — Gautama Buddha
Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns… — Ibn Ata Allah
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of… — Robyn Davidson
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect… — E F Schumacher
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mindfulness is life. Whenever we donâ€™t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, itâ€™s as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob… — James Harvey Robinson
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in… — Sudhir Kakar
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having… — John Dingell
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are… — Robert Graves
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice. — Saadi
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of… — William Osler
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;… — John Muir

Who Wrote These Heedless Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 43 Heedless Quotes, led by these top contributors: