Middlemarch (1871)
Source: Quoted in "The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution" by Frank White
Prologue.
Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)
Source: 1920s, My Life and Work (1922), pp. 19–20. Quoted in Samuel Crowther, "Henry Ford's Problem," The Magazine of Business, vol. 52 (1927), p. 182
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
Source: Van Gogh
“The half is greater than the whole.”
Hesiod, in Works and Days
Misattributed
“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”
Source: For the Love of the Game: My Story
“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”
Pittacus, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
