Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Interpretation
Everyone makes mistakes, but those made after careful thought can be particularly regrettable.
This quote highlights the significance of mistakes in human experience, suggesting that the most damaging errors often arise from overthinking or intelligence. It emphasizes that even well-crafted decisions can lead to failure, reminding us of the inherent fallibility of human judgment, irrespective of intellectual capability.
In practice
In a classroom discussion about learning from failure.
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
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