Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Quote by William Saroyan

Topics: Failure Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

If I condemn mankind too much it is because I know myself too well.

If I condemn mankind too much it is because I know myself too well.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when...

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he...

I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

When mans no more than an animal, hes worse than a beast.

When mans no more than an animal, hes worse than a beast.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a...

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage...

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage...

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the...

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the...

If you focus too much on one thing that you probably think is important, where...

If you focus too much on one thing that you probably think is important, where...

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.