Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

When the goals of science collide with moral and ethical judgment, there are certain times when science has to take a time-out.

If you keep winning, you don't know the areas you've to work hard.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

Success is a poor teacher

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.