"By seeking and blundering we learn." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of… — Sun Tzu
• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there… — Carlos Castaneda
• The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it.… — Francis Crick
• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class,… — Benjamin Disraeli
• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical… — Phyllis McGinley
• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk… — J B Morton
• But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons… — John T. Flynn
• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has… — Kenny Smith
• You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors. — Janusz Korczak
• Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering… — Humphrey Bogart
• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War… — Sam Kean

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