Quotes of: Blunders Keyword

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Maria Edgeworth

[about Rick] Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate "American blundering". I was with them when they "blundered" into Berlin ...

Casablanca

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Stephen Hawking

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

Thomas A. Edison

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.

A Conspiracy of Women

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Night Flight

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 his monument.

Justin Winsor

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

I've blundered my way through life.

William Shatner

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.

M.T. Dismuke

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

Bradley Chicho

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

John Morley

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

Thomas Huxley