Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Success makes a fool of you, but failure can come only from great effort. One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.


New York Journal-American, Aug. 23, 1961.
As quoted in: Contemporary quotations (1964) by James Beasley Simpson, p. 329

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Success makes a fool of you,...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Success makes a fool of you,...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Success makes a fool of you,...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Success makes a fool of you,...