Quotes About Blunders

Sometimes smart people can do very, very stupid things.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn't as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

and it is said that Waugh's witnessing numerous blunders and acts of overt cowardice there soured him permanently on the army, the war, and the pretense of high purpose claimed by both.