Failure Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.”

— Samuel Johnson

What a man does not know is greater than he.

— Chinua Achebe

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art…

— John Locke

“What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will…

— Søren Kierkegaard

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

— Sterling Hayden

Man knows much more than he understands.

— Alfred Adler

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

— Neal Shusterman

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

— Thomas Hobbes

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though…

— John Locke

What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

— Marcus Buckingham

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less…

— G.K. Chesterton