John Patrick Quotes

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.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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