Lord Byron Quotes

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

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

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

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

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

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.