Blunders Quotes

147 quotes by 124 authors

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of… — Phillips Brooks
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A J P Taylor
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
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions… — Alexis Carrel
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. — Terry Rossio
I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you… — A. Whitney Brown
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
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our… — Thucydides
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
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail. — Publilius Syrus
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
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. — Ibrahim Babangida
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. — George Washington

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