Blunders Quotes

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Blunders rarely travel alone.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Silence never makes any blunders.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.