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Quotes About Wisdom

What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.
~ Soichiro Honda
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
~ Charles Babbage
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
~ Alister E. McGrath
Haste in every business brings failures.
~ Herodotus
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.
~ John Harvey-Jones
Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
~ Bill Gates
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
~ Ridley Scott
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
~ Rick Pitino
Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .
~ Robert Evans
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
~ Agatha Christie
Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
~ Rick Warren
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
~ Phil Crosby
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
~ Nicole Krauss, Great House
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
~ Confucius
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Learn how to fail intelligently.
~ Charles Kettering
Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.
~ Pharrell Williams
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
~ Marianne Williamson
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
~ Peter McWilliams
What the world calls failure, I call learning.
~ Susan Vreeland
You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.
~ Colin Powell
Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
~ J. K. Bharavi