Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” — Robert J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute. — Saadi Copy Share Image
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“But I had learned deceptions could be uttered with a straight face, a warm smile might conceal malice, and that the most… — Sue Lynn Tan Copy Share Image
“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The hoodlum-occultist is “sociopathic” enough to, see through the conventional charade, the social mythology of his species. “They’re all sheep,” he thinks.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image