Top 128 Blunder Quotes & Sayings

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

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

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

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.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

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

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

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

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.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

It's difficult to love a goalkeeper. He is invisible, and is only in the limelight when he makes a blunder.

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

No matter how badly you play, unless you make a flat-out blunder, there's always going to be some narrow path to being able to save the game and draw instead of losing.

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

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

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.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

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.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

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.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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.

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

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

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.

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.

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

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.

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

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

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.

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

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

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

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.