William Saroyan Quotes on Wisdom

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72. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

82. I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

92. Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

117. I've forgotten more than you'll ever know.

123. We know more than we need to know.

154. I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded as irrelevant and useless. If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, 'That's that, where do we go from here?'

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