Mostly it is loss which teaches us about... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

History

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Cards

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Effect Opinion First Want

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Money People

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth First Being

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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