Blunder Quotes
Quotes about the blunders history remembers.
These quotes examine blunders large and small, from impatience mistaken for eagerness to a president pulling a general out of China at the wrong moment. Even a discovery can double as a blunder, one line argues. Compare with our Mistake quotes.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
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I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Chaos Quotes
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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 appraisal of the appraiser.
Emotion Quotes
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was...
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is...
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
Lesson Quotes
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at...
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
