Tryon Edwards Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Two, Evil, Choices

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books

• Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

  Tryon Edwards

  Evil, Easier, Results

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1063, Ravenio Books

• He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

  Tryon Edwards

  Truth, Errors, Evil

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 438), 1891.

• The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

  Tryon Edwards

  Destiny, Evil, Choices

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.406, Ravenio Books

• We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

  Tryon Edwards

  Evil, Honest, Mistaken

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.46

• Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

  Tryon Edwards

  Blessing, Evil, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1517, Ravenio Books

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