“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] — Joseph Fouche Copy Share Image
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more… — George Will Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
