Unthinkingly Quotes

#1. Emerence was spontaneously good, unthinkingly generous, able to reveal her orphaned condition only to another orphan, but never giving voice to her utter loneliness.

Magda Szabo

#2. Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

Alex Linder

#3. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Howard Mittelmark

#4. I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

Isabel Allende

#5. Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#6. If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

William Barclay

#7. For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Charles Duhigg

#8. Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.
It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Michael Parenti

#10. Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.

Bill Bryson

#11. I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

Gary Bauer

#13. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.

Kate Chopin

#14. Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.)

Terry Pratchett

#15. Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.[17

Charlie Brooker

#16. His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

Margaret Mitchell

#17. Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know - that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

Daniel Gilbert

#18. A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

Gotz Aly

#19. As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

Dennis Potter

#20. Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

#21. This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

Camille Paglia

#22. A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.

Charles Duhigg

#23. Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose - and know your purpose!

Frank Herbert

#24. It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

Lynn Davies

#25. Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.

William Boyd

#26. Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

#27. Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.

John Knowles

#28. Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

S.D. Gordon

#29. For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself ... one's friends must fail.

Gore Vidal

#30. I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe.

Stephenie Meyer

#31. Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions ... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#32. Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

Yolanda Adams

#33. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Martin Amis

#34. The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.

Charles F. Stanley

#35. Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!

Robert Pattinson

#36. Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Gao Xingjian

#37. I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Errol Flynn

#38. What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear ... This was not a human being at all.

Philip K. Dick

#39. True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Epes Sargent

#40. We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the "old kick" out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#41. Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.

Francine Rivers

#42. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Benjamin Franklin

#43. The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan