Misdeeds Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misdeeds Prudence Trouble
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent… — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches.… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
