Action Quote by John Adams

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Brains are a hindrance to action: the man who sees all sides takes none.”

— Minutes of the 220nd Meeting of the Boobooks Club 1924

“The greatest of human actions will appear to be insignificant when we come to die, and especially those upon which men most pride themselves…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists…

— Alice Walker

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“And indeed, it cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to synchronize the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.”

— Dean Koontz

“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They turned pain,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

— Albert Einstein

“At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and…

— Leo Tolstoy

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the…

— Franz Joseph Gall