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 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...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

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...

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...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the...

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the...

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...

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...

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you...

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you...

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.