Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.