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.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

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

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

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 indulgence in grief is a blunder.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

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

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.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

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.