A Quote by Harold S. Kushner
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.
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