Heedlessness Quotes

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

The danger lies in forgetting.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

you have not been / paying attention

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.