A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor

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

Annie Besant
Annie Besant

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Bradley Chicho
Bradley Chicho

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens

In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes

For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.

Flea
Flea

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.