People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.
Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
