Merle Shain Quotes

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

By suffering comes wisdom.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.