Blunders Quotes

Blunders Quote of the day

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

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.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Blunders rarely travel alone.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

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 and not so easy to practise it.

"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

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 stroke of the pencil.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

Silence never makes any blunders.

Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

I've spent my life making blunders.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.