Motive Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motive Unjust Values World
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
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