"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure."
—
Kenneth E. Boulding
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth E. Boulding has 25 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
-
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians.…
-
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human…
-
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
-
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and…
-
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
-
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an…
-
... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
-
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of…
-
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
-
The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship,…
-
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
See all 25 quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding »
More Failing Quotes
This quote is filed under Failing Quotes,
one of 3,535 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
-
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
-
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
-
War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
-
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
-
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
-
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
-
I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
— Michele Bachmann
-
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
-
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when…
— Joseph Barbera
-
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
— Lord Acton
See all 3,535 Failing Quotes »