Learning and personal development
There is no education like adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), Endymion (1880), Ch. 61.

Learning and personal development

What it means

Adversity teaches lessons nothing else can. Hard times are an education of their own.

About the author

Benjamin Disraeli — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874–1880).

Source and verification

Source
Endymion (1880), Ch. 61.
Reference
Benjamin Disraeli on Wikiquote
Checked
Wording and source taken from the sourced section of the author’s Wikiquote page, which cites the work given here (accessed 2026-10-11).
Copyright
Public domain: the author died in 1881.

The explanation above is ToDoMatriX’s own reading of the quote, not the author’s words.

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