Thought Without Action Quotes

#1. Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

Kwame Nkrumah

#2. Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Ayn Rand

#3. A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the "power of precision," and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

Archibald Marwizi

#4. We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

Robert E. Ornstein

#5. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic

Winston S. Churchill

#6. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#7. Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly

#8. Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.)

Kwame Nkrumah

#9. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

#10. To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#11. To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Brad Warner

#14. Freedom of thought is meaningless without the freedom to act.

Marty Rubin

#15. Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

Denis Waitley

#17. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

#18. We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

Jim Rohn

#19. Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

Ann Wigmore

#20. What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without further or deeper purpose.

Jonathan Maberry

#21. Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you

Steve Pavlina

#22. No real social change has ever been
brought about without a revolution -
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment,
for science, for religious, political, and
economic liberty, emanates from the minority,
and not from the mass.

Emma Goldman

#23. There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.

Daniel Odier

#24. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.

Jules Verne

#25. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#26. Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard Baruch

#27. I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

Vivienne Westwood

#28. But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.

Virginia Woolf

#29. No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Suzy Kassem