Blunders Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “A clever man commits no minor blunders.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blunders Clever Clever man
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Wise person never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
