Rashness Quotes

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

Eilmer ... was a man learned for those times ..., and in his youth had hazarded a deed of remarkable boldness. He had by some means, I scarcely know what, fastened wings to his hands and feet so that, mistaking fable for truth, he might fly like Daedalus, and, collecting the breeze on the summit of a tower, he flew for more than the distance of a furlong. But, agitated by the violence of the wind and the swirling of air, as well as by awareness of his rashness, he fell, broke his legs, and was lame ever after. He himself used to say that the cause of his failure was forgetting to put a tail on the back part.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Haste is a poor counselor

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Haste is blind and improvident.

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

... a fool

The human mind is too apt to rush from one extreme to another; it appears, by the objections that came from the different States … For now the cry is power, give Congress power. Without reflecting that every free nation, that hath ever existed, has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience, and want of necessary caution.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

Haste is of the Devil.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.