Quotes About Unthinking

#1. It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Daisaku Ikeda

#3. At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute - untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.

Bell Hooks

#4. All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

Julia Leigh

#5. What you need is sustained outrage ... there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Molly Ivins

#6. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.

Bertolt Brecht

#7. He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he'd been damaged by it, permanently.

Adam Nevill

#8. Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.

Ray Comfort

#9. Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.

Charles Dickens

#10. I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Julia Lee Dean

#11. We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God ... He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#12. Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?

David Brin

#13. The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was," he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#15. There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one

David Mitchell

#17. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Kate Chopin

#18. The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning - that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.

Dean Koontz

#19. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Salman Rushdie

#20. Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.

William Landay

#21. War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Jayne Mansfield

#22. ... my mother reached over and laid her hand on my arm, saying that was true, ... and I felt something twist in me, the motion of some unthinking thing when it is gripped too hard, and I had to resist the urge to pull away.

Garth Greenwell

#23. Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Huston Smith

#24. You ... ." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love ... ... you.

Aleksandr Voinov

#25. You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

Agatha Christie

#26. The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled

Anton Gill

#27. As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind ... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

Nikolai Gogol

#28. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.

Tim Irwin

#29. All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Charles Stross

#30. It is easy to write unthinking music.

George Crumb

#31. The determination that is his biggest strength ... is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.

Lin Pardey

#32. It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

Tanith Lee

#33. for the days were so full of unthinking effort

Norman Matson

#34. Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#35. Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences - humans do not.

Brian Herbert

#36. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

#37. How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.

Ian McEwan

#38. Children are bad enough
children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power.

Ian Sansom

#39. It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery ... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

Lance Armstrong

#40. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

#41. The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.

Gary Gygax

#42. A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#43. Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

John Hutchinson

#44. Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

#45. See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking

Robert Burns

#46. The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage - make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand - are the greatest threats knowledge can face.

Rachel Caine

#47. I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Spurgeon

#48. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Immanuel Kant

#49. War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Percival Lowell

#50. It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten ... but the hurt stays in the heart.

Ella Higginson

#51. When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.

John Gardner

#52. Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

Lee Strobel

#53. A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#54. Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that "walk" didn't describe it.

John Knowles

#55. The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Robert Anton Wilson

#56. Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

Ray Comfort

#57. I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters.

David Mitchell

#58. Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you.
You breathe it unthinking, and
dissipate it with your sighs.

Roy H. Williams

#59. In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Sherwood Anderson

#60. I will be your friend, then, for the ancient Hellenes said a good friend may stand between a man and his moira. Do you know what that means?'

'Fate.' I answered unthinking...

Jacqueline Carey

#61. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

Harold Brodkey

#62. Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

Nigel Warburton

#63. I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

J.R. Rim

#64. There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.

Warren Eyster