He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus · Agamemnon

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Aeschylus · Prometheus Bound

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.

Aeschylus · The Libation Bearers

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Aeschylus · From Prometheus Bound.

More Wisdom Quotes

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 May 1911

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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”

“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.”

“Time as he grows old teaches all things.”

“To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.”