A Quote by Heinrich Heine

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heinrich Heine

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Action After Instruments Men Only Thought Unconscious

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Heinrich Heine
German - Poet
December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heinrich Heine

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

Patty Jenkins

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

Jack Donovan

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

Hannah Arendt

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Pearl S. Buck

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Eric Hoffer

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Charles Mackay

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Henri Bergson

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.