

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
Traced to Nicomachean Ethics.
More from Aristotle
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics
verified“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle
Poetics
verified“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
Aristotle
Poetics
verified“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
Aristotle
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
verified“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
Aristotle
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
verified“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
Aristotle
On the Heavens
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Harijan · 1947
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
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