Unreflective Quotes

#1. Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

Ruskin Bond

#3. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality ... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

#4. (Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort of empty spun-sugar shibboleth that communicates nothing except a certain unreflective sappiness in the speaker.

David Foster Wallace

#5. And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. He smiled a slow, predatory grin. "Resistance is futile." "You are not assimilating me.

Ilona Andrews

#7. there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. For Christians ... an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.

Delwin Brown

#9. Yo momma's so ugly when people see her face they say "Hey,lady!It ain't Halloween yet!

Tony Glare

#10. Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

John Rawls

#11. Her heart still quickened at the memory. The way his strong arms felt around her, his wine-scented breath across her lips, the toe-curling, mind-numbing, soul-searing kiss he'd given her.

Ava Stone

#12. In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Edwin Meese

#13. I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

Sarah Mlynowski

#14. he questioned the wisdom of choosing a place where the windchill sucked his dick into his body and dried out his balls.

Skye Warren

#15. Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. A man can live three days without water; 40 days without food. But only five minutes without hope.

John Maxwell

#17. To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

Edward Weston

#18. Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Kanye West

#19. An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

Gautama Buddha

#20. The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of reflection which we put to work serves to improve our reliability or not.

Hilary Kornblith

#21. When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.

Hilary Kornblith