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.
We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
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