#blunder

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. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#catalogue #mainly #war

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

— Stand Watie

#bad #blunder #crime #get #great

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

#august #blunder #character #discovery #hardly

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#god #man

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. ↗

— Josh Billings

#life #mistakes #success #life

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bless #blessed #blunders #forget #forgetful

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. ↗