Quotes About Wisdom

Only through suffering do we learn

When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

He who learns must suffer.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

Learning comes through pain.

Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

we suffer and we learn. And we will know the future when it comes. Greet it too early, weep too soon. It all comes clear in the light of day.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Zeus, whose will has marked for man The sole way where wisdom lies; Ordered one eternal plan: Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past ill Stray his course and cloud his heart: Sorrow takes the blind soul's part - Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.

Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not what to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Truth comes with pain.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.