Blundering Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And…
— Sun Tzu
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering…
— Francis Crick
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's…
— J B Morton
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
— Kenny Smith
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You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.
— Janusz Korczak
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Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't…
— Humphrey Bogart
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept…
— Sam Kean
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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
— H.G. Wells
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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
— Saul Bellow
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel…
— Anne Carson
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I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.
— Robert Motherwell
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
— Charles Darwin
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word…
— Mark Twain
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Blundering Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Blundering Quotes, led by these top contributors: