Quotes about Neglect

Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

Growing - Neglect

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Fault - Human - Man - Mindset - Neglect - Weakness

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Countries - Neglect - Suicide

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Enemy - Fame - Happiness - Indulgence - Making - Malice - Man - Neglect - Neutrality - Power - Pride - Quiet - Satisfaction

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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Art - Future - Loss - Neglect - Past

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Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

Accomplishment - Agreeing - Care - Follower - Neglect - Past - Thinking - Unwilling - Wellness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Conquering - Fault - Man - Neglect

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.

Feelings - Neglect - Spiritual

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.

Neglect

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Brain - Neglect - Teaching

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?

Blame - Countries - Government - India - Neglect - Opposition - Thinking

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

Capitalism - Diligence - Incentive - Laziness - Neglect - Production - Selfishness - Socialism

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

Art - Authority - Defeat - Discipline - Enemy - Man - Neglect - Training - Wants - War

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Influence - Judging - Man - Neglect - Virtue

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

Decay - Individual - Interest - Lifestyle - Luxury - Neglect - State

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Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Death - Good - Life - Man - Neglect

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Admiration - Neglect

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Lord Byron

Poet, Politician, Revolutionary

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

Energy - Harshness - Mastering - Neglect - Production - Sensuality

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Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

Careless - Glory - Guilt - Making - Man - Neglect - Oneself - Perfection

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.

Difficulty - End - Mindset - Neglect - Obscurity - Pursuit - Suffering - Unnecessary - Wishing - Writing

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