Capture Quote by Sun Tzu

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which…

— Sun Tzu

“[A]nd there are few things as threatening to us as individuals as a person who perceives our worst flaws, especially when those flaws are…

— Jobie Hughes

“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily…

— Edwin A. Abbott

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so…

— Hosea Ballou

“Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are…

— Julian Barnes

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

— Woodrow Wilson

“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 even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.”

— Sally MacKenzie

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable…

— John Stuart Mill

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge