#blunder

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

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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. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. ↗

— John Bonham

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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

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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

— Stand Watie

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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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Thomas Huxley

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