Lin Yutang Quotes

Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.