Top 25 Neglect Quotes of 131 - Page 3

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater

Liberty, Causes, Neglect

"The Conscience of a Conservative". Book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell, 1960.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Rudolf Arnheim

Art, Perception, Neglected

Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.3, Univ of California Press

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

Napoleon Hill

Exercise, Self, Neglect

Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John F. Kennedy

Cities, Neglect, Peril

Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.78, Best Books on

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

Gene Simmons

People, Busy, Neglect

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin

Work, Faults, Neglect

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Aesop

Old Friends, Sake, Neglect

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

Wise, Neglect, Deny

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Washington Irving

Evil, Neglect, Englishmen

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine”, p.520

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Thomas Carlyle

Men, World, Neglect

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Fire, Sparks, Neglected

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 272-73, De Rebus Gestis Alexandria Magni, VI, 3, 11, 1922.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Pliny the Elder

Eye, Afar, Neglect

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Maynard James Keenan

Thinking, People, Neglected

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

Dorothy Nevill

Self, Neglect, Teach

Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

David Steindl-Rast

Silence, Focus, Neglect

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Light, Ease, Neglect

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.259, Macmillan

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Thomas Eakins

Honor, Neglect, Misunderstanding

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Stephen Covey

Marriage, Would Be, Neglect

Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press