(37 quotes found)
“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist”
Victor Hugo
“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.”
Lewis Thomas
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
Charles Darwin
“This is worse than a crime, it's a blunder”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million”
Paul Hager
“They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties”
Alexander MacLaren
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