Blunders Quotes

147 quotes by 124 authors

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder… — J I Packer
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,… — Thomas Ligotti
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with… — Mary Balogh
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us… — Herman Wouk
Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made… — George Gamow
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be… — P D Ouspensky
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. — Allan Massie
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no… — Henry Thomas Buckle
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. — Archibald Alexander
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads… — Victor Hugo
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made… — Arthur Helps
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as… — Marianne Moore
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my… — Charlotte Bronte
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of… — Hollis Alpert
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you… — Lubomir Kavalek
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith… — Fred Reinfeld

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