From their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
