Carolyn Wells
Author
"A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time."
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Blunders
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"The indulgence in grief is a blunder."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love."
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"It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities."
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed."
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"Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?"
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