Attributes Quote by Arthur C. Clarke Download Open image “Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence” — Arthur C. Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attributes Incompetence Malevolence
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image