A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Malice Mischief Misunderstandings More Neglect Occasion Than Wickedness World

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Aaron Hill

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

Antoine Rivarol

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Benjamin Franklin

I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling. I would rather be known for the content of my character than for the project that I did.

Zendaya

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Albert Einstein

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Laurence Sterne

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

John Flavel

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

William Langland

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.