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 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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth,...

So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth,...

We cannot learn men from books.

We cannot learn men from books.

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to...

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to...