Unguided Quotes

#1. Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Augustus De Morgan

#2. We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation into manhood through relatively unguided self-experimentation is rare. Boys cannot become whole men without men and women making them into men.

Michael Gurian

#3. On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Aaron Swartz

#5. Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Jane Addams

#7. Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Thomas Hobbes

#8. [Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Philip Johnson

#9. The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

William Shakespeare

#10. Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray ... [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.

Billy Graham

#11. Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

Frank H. T. Rhodes

#12. The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Kate Chopin

#14. If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

Margo MacDonald

#15. Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

Seth Godin

#16. Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

#17. But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

Lisa Genova

#18. I'm just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn't have people in it. - Luke Almeida

Kate Meader

#19. It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.

Susan Sontag

#20. Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

Melissa Etheridge

#21. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.

Madeleine Roux

#22. Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

Edith Widder

#23. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

Austin O'Malley