“Action without thought is blind and thought without action is a disease. We must avoid overthinking.”
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Walter Russell (1871–1963) American philosopher
The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“Avoid the deafening noise of silence: incite thoughts by disfavouring action.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Evita l'assordante rumore del silenzio: incita i pensieri sfavorendo l'azione.
Source: prevale.net
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason
A 51, B 75
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
Context: Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Sometimes ascribed to Virginia Woolf, but it appeared as early as 1854 in Anna Jameson's A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, where it is ascribed to William Wordsworth.
Misattributed
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).
“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”
Sogyal Rinpoche (1947–2019) Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Message to the Senate (19 August 1914)
1910s
Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922) Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism
On Allah (God), as quoted in Doctrine of Sufis (1977) by Abû Bakr al- Kalâbâdî, as translated by A. J. Arberry, Ch. 5 p. 16
