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.

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.

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.

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience. Yes, experience matters, but judgment matters more. Despite her experience, Hillary Clinton's poor decisions have produced bad results. Just think about it.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

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.

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.

A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.

The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

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.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

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