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Second Thoughts Quotes

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides
Wise, Wisdom, Second Thoughts
Euripides (2015). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.250, Xist Publishing

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

George Lois
Giving, Second Thoughts

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Euripides
Ideas, World, Second Thoughts
Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.210, University of Chicago Press

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

Vincent Van Gogh
Worry, Second Thoughts, Stylish

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

Albert Einstein
God, Valentine, Second Thoughts
Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

William Shenstone
Second Thoughts, Worst
William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.166

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

Leonardo DiCaprio
Eating, Grapes, Second Thoughts
"New Again: Leonardo Dicaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

John Dryden
Second Thoughts
William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.37

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers
Mistake, Liable, Second Thoughts

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Aldous Huxley
Writing, Second Thoughts, My Thoughts

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

Shannon Hale
Too Late, Might, Second Thoughts
Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.132, A&C Black

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Second Thoughts
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Faces, Second Thoughts, Prose
Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.218, A&C Black

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

Bryan Fuller
Animal, People, Second Thoughts
"Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. Apil 22, 2014.

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