"It was the failures who had always won,……" — Loren Eiseley

"It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes."

— Loren Eiseley

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73 Quotes by Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by…
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark…
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles…
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having…
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is…
Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the…
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not…
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by…
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity,…
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

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More Always Won Quotes

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always… — Hannah Arendt
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and… — Condoleezza Rice
Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they… — John Wooden
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. — Abebe Bikila
A game is always won through a mistake. — Savielly Tartakower
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers… — Jean Vanier
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have… — Harry Golombek
I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if… — Mike Krzyzewski
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann… — Rick Riordan
SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won. — Sara Shepard

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