Blunder Quotes

77 quotes by 70 authors

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made… — William Ellery Channing
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years… — Vernon Howard
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time… — John Tyler
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try… — Harold Klemp
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even… — Adolf Hitler
The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people...The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably… — James Boswell
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we… — John Banville
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. — Carolyn Wells
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. — Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors — Elbert Hubbard
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder — Muhammad Ali

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