Aeschylus Quotes

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

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.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

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.

By suffering comes wisdom.

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

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

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Suffering brings experience.

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.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

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

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

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

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.