Rusty Schweickart (1935) American astronaut
Source: Quoted in "The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution" by Frank White
“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”
— George Eliot, book Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Prologue.
Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)
Henry Ford book My Life and Work
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.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Source: Van Gogh
“The half is greater than the whole.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
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.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Source: For the Love of the Game: My Story
“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pittacus, 2.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
