Blunders Quotes

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

— Savielly Tartakower

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder

— Muhammad Ali

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

— William Goldman

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

War is a catalouge of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

— Maria Edgeworth

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

— Archibald Alexander

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

— Hannah More

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Abraham Cowley

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Joseph Fouche

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”

— Savielly Tartakower

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean,…

— A. Whitney Brown

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or…

— Norbert Wiener

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't…

— Pat Summitt

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a…

— Susan Blackmore

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled…

— Noam Chomsky

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was…

— Tom Clancy

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is…

— Lindsey Graham

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of…

— David Hume

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if…

— Jack Canfield

The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he…

— Robert O. Paxton

“Comparatively, our private blunders are insignificant. Just part of the general pattern of human awfulness. We map our little disasters onto a…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,…

— Anonymous

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the…

— Eugene Delacroix

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a…

— Thomas Ligotti

The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race…

— Emma Goldman

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have…

— Paulo Coelho