Quote by Charles William Eliot

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

— Anonymous

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“There is a difference between error and evil, there is a difference between mistake and malice.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.”

— Francis Bacon

“All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

— Edward Coke

“Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Imperfect judgments; judgments formed on half-known grounds; judgments formed by the lesser intelligence concerning a greater which it cannot comprehend—what rebellion and ruin have…

— Mrs. Alfred Gatty

“Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.”

— Robert Heinlein