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• Thoughtlessness: Inconsideration: the quality of failing to be considerate of others. Oxford Dictionary
• Thoughtlessness: Lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless.  Dictionary.com
• Cruelty,  Apathy and indifference,  Abuse,  Consideration,  Caring

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Thoughtlessness does much damage

• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson
• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill

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Thoughtlessness often leads to cruelty, even evil

• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. Albert Schweitzer
• I think there’s something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can’t be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. Wentworth Miller
• Cruelty,  Evil

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Therefore, don’t be thoughtless

• Be not thoughtless, watch your thoughts! Friedrich Max Muller
• Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Friedrich Max Muller

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Be considerate of others

• Consideration: Thoughtfulness and sensitivity towards others. Oxford Dictionary
• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man. Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do? Maxim Gorky
• Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. John Lithgow
• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time. Thomas J. Watson
• Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. Don Herold
• Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Be considerate to yourself

• He who doesn’t consider himself is seldom considerate of others. David Seabury
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life and a good society

• Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. Confucius
• A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. Eeyore
• From this it follows that consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people’s good. Morarji Desai
• Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. Bryant H. McGill

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Consideration pays great dividends

• Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman
• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. Grenville Kleiser

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Thoughtfulness can change the world

• We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
• Making a difference,  Change

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Consideration is at the heart of politeness and courteousness

• Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. Bryant McGill
• Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Benjamin Disraeli
• The only true source of politeness is consideration. William Gilmore Simms
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Consideration is at the heart of understanding others

• Seeking to understand takes consideration, seeking to be understood takes courage. Effectiveness lies in balancing or blending the two.  Stephen Covey
• Understanding,  Seek first to understand

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Consideration is at the heart of empathy

• Practice empathy. The more successful you are at achieving understanding, concern, and consideration of the other person’s perspective, the more likely you are to forgive him or her.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Most of all, consideration is at the heart of love

• There is but one genuine love-potion – consideration. Menander of Athens
• Love always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve. Philip T. Sudo
• The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones. Frederick William Robertson
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Nourish your relationships with thoughtfulness …

• If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people–things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love. L.O. Baird
• Nourish your spirit with stillness. Nourish your mind with knowledge. Nourish your heart with unconditional love. Nourish your body with living food. Nourish your relationships with thoughtfulness. Tim Ong
• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the “love account. Zig Ziglar
• You gave me your time, the most thoughtful gift of all. Dan Zadra
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… especially with those you love

• Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. Bible
• Marriage is the comfort of the considerate and prudent; but the torment of the inconsiderate and self- willed.  William Scott
• There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found while journeying east and west – the only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Love gives thoughtlessly

• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. Hannah More
• Giving,  Service

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Thoughtlessness can also mean not thinking enough

• Thoughtlessness: Not thinking enough; careless or heedless. Dictionary.com
• Thoughtlessness:  Characterized by or showing lack of thought.  Dictionary.com

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Men go to great lengths not to have to think too much

• Our minds are lazier than our bodies. Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. Thomas Alva Edison
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford
• Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months – and without a new thought for years on end. Kent Ruth
• All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. Thomas J. Watson
• It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought. Thomas A. Edison
• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix
• Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin L. King, Jr.
• Most people would rather die than think: many do. Bertrand Russell
• We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. Norman Cousins
• Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley
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To avoid thinking, we love to think what others think

• But far more numerous was the herd of such, who think too little and who talk too much. John Dryden
• If you’re thinking like everyone else, then you aren’t thinking.
• When all think alike, no one is thinking. Walter Lippmann
• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. K. Galbraith
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Use your own intelligence instead of thoughtless imitating

• You have to think for yourself. It always amazes me how high IQ people mindlessly imitate. I never get good ideas talking to other people.  Warren Buffett
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Albert Einstein
• Intelligence,  Originality

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To avoid thinking, we love to read

• Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for drugging thought. Sir Arthur Helps
• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. Michael Crichton
• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
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Use your brain after reading to think and reflect

• Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke
• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley
• Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues. Wallace D. Wattles
• You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read. Wallace D. Wattles
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
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Make time for thoughtful reflection on life too

• Quietness with thoughtful reflection and relaxation can be empowering. Cynthia Wright
• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam
• Thoughtful reflection on natural experience, in the light of conceptual ideas, is the most powerful tool we have for management learning. Henry Mintzberg
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To avoid thinking, we think the same thoughts over and over

• A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. Marquis de Vauvenargues
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To avoid thinking, we often speak without prior deliberation

• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. Charles M. de Talleyrand
• If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. George Barzan
• If only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.  Shaun Shane
• Think before you speak. You might need to remember what you said. Rain Bojangles
• The thoughtless are rarely wordless. Howard W. Newton

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Beware of both thoughtless risk and thoughtless caution

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Gary Ryan Blair
• Risk taking,  Caution

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Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice

• Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. Robert Charles Whitehead
• Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness. Herschel M Rothman

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There are times when it’s good to be thoughtless

• The first thing to remember is how to drop thoughts and become thoughtless — thoughtless but alert. Osho
• Your degree of absence of thought is your measuring stick on the spiritual path. Ramana Maharshi
• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self- conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.  Ray Bradbury
• When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. Gangaji
• The mind has to be empty to see clearly. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• I sink into the gaps between thoughts to experience stillness and peace. Eckhart Tolle
• Keep your head clear. It doesn’t matter how bright the path is if your head is always cloudy.
• Stop thinking, and end your problems. Lao Tzu
• Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony de Mello
• Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts. John Keats
• The Creator has to be experienced beyond the five senses and the only instrument that can experience in this way, for you, is yourself – in the state of thoughtless awareness in which you declare ‘I am’ and hold it. Barry Long
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Perhaps the answer lies in a balance of thoughtfulness and thoughtlessness

• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self- centered consciousness permits us to see.  We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state.  We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.  Aldous Huxley
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• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! Edward Young
• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. Somerset Maugham
• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johannes Kepler
• In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Cyril Connolly
• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. Theophile Gautier
• One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people. Jarod Kintz
• People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. Bodhidharma (c. 440 AD – 528 AD)
• Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy. Bertrand Russell
• Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already. Friedrich Max Muller
• Thoughtlessness is a child’s most basic right. Paul Carvel
• What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

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• Thoughtlessness—I try not to think about it. Jarod Kintz
• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married. Finley Peter Dunne
• I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair. Lena Dunham

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