Ingenuity Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ingenuity May Motive President Virtuous
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed. — Margaret Preston Copy Share Image
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence. — Joseph Butler 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
“People usually consider an active and proactive approach as a human virtue. However, sometimes doing nothing is the best choice we can make. If… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
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