Quote by John M. Barrie

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Summary

This quote suggests that when dealing with opponents or rivals, one should not assume that their intentions or motives are worse than one's own. It serves as a reminder to avoid making negative assumptions about others, especially in competitive situations, as it can lead to prejudice or unfair judgments. The quote encourages fairness, empathy, and the recognition that people may have different perspectives and goals, without automatically attributing malicious or sinister intentions to them.

Topics

By John M. Barrie

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Orson Scott Card

Experience Man Deeds

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Success & Failure

So avoid using the word 'very' because itâ€™s lazy. A man is

So avoid using the word 'very' because itâ€™s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have c

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Scholars Scholarship

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Augusten Burroughs

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quit

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Katherine Heigl

In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no tr

In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Henry David Thoreau

Science Philosophy Order

I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part

I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramou

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.