#stumble

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#steady #step #stumble #thou #thy

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#darkness #enlightened #even #fall #fallen

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#chances #down #expecting #going #heard

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#down #going #into #lies #life

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base. ↗

— Larry David

#along #back #base #could #doing

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. ↗

— Hans Blix

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #men #most #nothing

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. ↗

— Gary Numan

#across #blueprint #i #stumbled #them

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#fallen #hasn #i #life #lifeless