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Read & copy the quotation
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
- Source
- The Conduct of Life
- Date
- 1860
Meaning of “Life is a succession of lessons which must…”
Some understanding arrives only through experience: ideas about character, consequence, relationship, and judgment become clearer when they have been lived rather than merely described.
Where does it come from?
The Conduct of Life; the line connects knowledge of life with accumulated experience and the lessons that experience makes intelligible.
