- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blunder Quotes
Quotes about the blunders history remembers.
These quotes examine blunders large and small, from impatience mistaken for eagerness to a president pulling a general out of China at the wrong moment. Even a discovery can double as a blunder, one line argues. Compare with our Mistake quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Former
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- Nov 07, 2020
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Appraise
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020