Intention Quotes

This is the patent-age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls, all propagated with the best intentions.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.[Le mal qui est dans le monde vient presque toujours de l’ignorance, et la bonne volonté peut faire autant de dégâts que la méchanceté, si elle n’est pas éclairée.]

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘Creation’.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.