Sorrows Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Francis Bacon

“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

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

— Michael Ende

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

— Edmund Burke

“The desire of wrong things leads to wickedness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simplehearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”

— William Shakespeare

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.”

— Albert Einstein

“There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity…

— Auberon Waugh