Hasty Quotes

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. (Woodrow Wilson)
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. View quote
William Penn
Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. View quote
Olympia Brown
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England. View quote
Bret Harte
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. View quote
Jane Austen
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love. View quote
Annie Besant
I don't believe in hasty marriages. View quote
Anna Held
Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear! (Pythagoras)
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. View quote
Daniel Webster
Joseph Smith drifting into errors after translating the Book of Mormon, is a stumbling-block to many, but only those of very weak faith would stumble on this account. Greater abominations are recorded of David in the Bible, than is recorded to-day of Joseph Smith; but do you reject the Psalms on this account? Do you reject the Proverbs because Solomon was a polygamist? Stop and think, you who are hasty to condemn. If you desire to know whether or not the Book of Mormon is true, read the book and investigate it, for Christ has promised that he who seeks in the right way shall find the truth of all things. We are commanded to "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." View quote
David Whitmer
They [universities] may be said to resemble antiquated coquettes of the last age, who think everything ridiculous and intolerable but what was in fashion when they were young, and yet are standing proofs of the progress of taste and the vanity of human pretensions. Our universities are, in a great measure, become cisterns to hold, not conduits to disperse knowledge. ... they can only be of service as a check-weight on the too hasty and rapid career of innovation. ... The unavoidable aim of all corporate bodies of learning is not to grow wise, or teach others wisdom, but to prevent any one else from being or seeming wiser than themselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
"The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable-and will send back tidings. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. View quote
Robert Jordan
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. View quote
Robert Frost
A man can trust his luck, but a society can't; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Little effort was made to explain Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amounted to Iraqi propaganda...I must have been crazy; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it. Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations. Instead, I said the following: 'I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.' As soon as I had spoken, I wished for the power to freeze time and take back those words. My reply had been a terrible mistake, hasty, clumsy, and wrong. Nothing matters more than the lives of innocent people. I had fallen into a trap and said something that I simply did not mean. That is no one's fault but my own. View quote
Madeleine Albright
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
From these beginnings, as it were, have issued bitterness, contentious obstinancy, lack of amenity, hasty judgement, anger, and an intense desire for revenge-to say nothing of headstrong will; that which many damn, by word at least, was my delight. (Gerolamo Cardano)
I have no time for babbling foolishness.” "Don't be so hasty,” said Victor. "There's always time for babbling. View quote
Eoin Colfer
An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled. View quote
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, - The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. View quote
Wilfred Owen
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. View quote
Thomas Gray