“When the iron is hot, strike.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“When Anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to Action,
Like a hot Steed, it stumbles in its way!
The Man of Thought wounds deepest, and strikes safely.”
Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.
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Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Henri Bergson, as quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 442; this only seems to have become attributed to Sallust in the early 21st century.
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Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)
History of the Peloponnesian War
“I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.”
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French philosopher
Je dirais qu'il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action. <br class="br">Speech at the Descartes Conference http://books.google.com/books?id=BynXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Je+dirais+qu'il+faut+agir+en+homme+de+pens%C3%A9e+et+penser+en+homme+d'action%22&pg=PA1579#v=onepage in Paris (1937) <br class="br">Quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 442, as "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876)
“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind