Imprudence Example Quotes & Sayings

If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. — Christopher Hitchens

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes. — Tony Shalhoub

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Everyone knows that physicists are concerned with the laws of the universe and have the audacity sometimes to think they have discovered the choices God made when He created the universe in thus and such a pattern. Mathematicians are even more audacious. What they feel they discover are the laws that God Himself could not avoid having to follow. — David Mumford

...your heart spoke for you. You gave up everything for me. — Camilla Isley

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. — Heath Ledger

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one,
to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two. — Sun Tzu

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. — Douglas Hofstadter

Focus on the now and kick ass! — A.R. Von

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common. — CrimethInc.

Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt. — Pen

I'm astonished by my success. — Danielle Steel

dirt, but the machine began to make — Kim Edwards