Quotes by Philosophers - Page 49

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
Ayn Rand
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.
Lao Tzu
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
Ralph Waldo Trine
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
Publilius Syrus
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming
All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
John Locke
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.
Thomas Carlyle
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Eric Hoffer
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellent things are rare.
Plato
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David Thoreau
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
John Cage
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Michel de Montaigne
Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.
Epictetus
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
G.K. Chesterton
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
David Hume
We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.
Epictetus
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Aurelius
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
Aldous Huxley