Blunders Quotes
147 quotes by 124 authors
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to…
— Abraham Maslow
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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game:…
— Georges Perec
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken…
— Margaret Atwood
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I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance…
— John Steinbeck
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As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface…
— Joseph Campbell
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads,…
— Emma Goldman
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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
— Oliver Sacks
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Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
— Scott Anderson
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
— Maria Edgeworth
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
— John Morley
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Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
— Bradley Chicho
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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not…
— Richard De Bury
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Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals approach…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia.…
— The Princess Bride
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in…
— Jello Biafra
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Some consider setbacks a badge of honor, unmistakable proof theyre bold risk takers. Far from hiding their blunders, they brag about them.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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There are two days in every week that we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One…
— AaRon
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