Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Topic: Learning, Life, Mistakes
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
