Blunders Quotes

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
― Josh Billings

“You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”
Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?”
― James Anderson

“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
― Savielly Tartakower

“Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta