Consequence Quote by Aldous Huxley Download Open image “Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.” — Aldous Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consequence Folly Malice Unhappiness
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Anonymous 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 punished by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now proposed. Land on the top of Skiddaw and walk for a couple of hours in the heather. “Alone with you, Lenina.” “But, Bernard, we shall be alone all night.” Bernard blushed and looked away. “I meant,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to… — Tom Segev Copy Share
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
