Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
~By David Hume ~
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
~By Saint Augustine ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~By Colin Powell ~
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
~By Samuel Horsley ~
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.
~By Joe Sacco ~
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
~By George Whitefield ~
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~By Noah Webster ~
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
~By David Elkind ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
~By Robert Casey ~
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
~By Jeremy Paxman ~
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
~By David Chalmers ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
~By James C. Dobson ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~By Euripides ~
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
~By John L. Lewis ~
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
~By Confucius ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
A man should never neglect his family for business.
~By Walt Disney ~
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
~By Lord Melbourne ~
The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
~By Barack Obama ~
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
~By Richard Whately ~
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
~By Tom Harkin ~
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
They just neglected a large portion of the front row.
~By Gary Cooper ~
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
~By Amartya Sen ~
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
~By Sophocles ~
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
~By John Doolittle ~
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
~By Michael Harrington ~
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
~By Charles Babbage ~
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
~By Keith Henson ~
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~By Plato ~
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~By Anne Bronte ~
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
~By Vince Gill ~
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
~By John Woolman ~
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
~By Ralph Marston ~
I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
~By George Crumb ~
Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.
~By Ron Fairly ~
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
~By Joe Baca ~
The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.
~By Sue Kelly ~
I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
~By Mark Twain ~
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
~By Richard Whately ~
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~By John A. Logan ~
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
~By Fritz Zwicky ~
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
~By Mark Rutherford ~
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~By Howard Crosby ~
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
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