Misguided Actions Quotes

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

Proclamations are not of equal force with laws, yet is a duty incumbent on me, and a power inseparably attached to the crown, to restrain and prevent such mischiefs … against which no law is extant.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.