Top 116 Blunders Quotes & Sayings

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.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

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

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

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

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

A successful career has been full of blunders.

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

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

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

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

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

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

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

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

Silence never makes any blunders.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

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

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

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

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.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

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

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

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

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

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.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

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

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

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.

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.

Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.

Blunders rarely travel alone.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I've spent my life making blunders.

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

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

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

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.

In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

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

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

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

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.

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

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.