Quotes About Lesson

Neither the truth nor the character of history depend, in any way, upon its having some lesson to teach us. And if ever we persuade ourselves that the past has taught us something, we may be certain that it is not the historical past which has been our teacher.

Tempting fate, much? If I was Fate, lounging around in stately Fate Mansion drinking Fate Cola and eating a big bowl of Fate Crispies and I heard a dismissive Scots accent saying something like that, I'd be revving up the Fatemobile to teach said Mr Tartanjocks a lesson in humility.

The lesson of the spiral is that every "thing" is not a noun but a process, a dynamic "energy event." The world resembles a whirlpool of transformation with which we can cooperate for our benefit.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.

I bless God daily for the bonds of affection that have held us together and brought us through the pestilence. To be loved and honored for who we are, and not what our status represents, is surely the lesson He wanted us to learn when he sent His son to live as a carpenter and not as a king. The future will be bright indeed when even the humblest are given the chance to prove their worth.

Ai fost un prost. Nu trebuia s-o visezi, trebuia s-o iubeÅŸti.

Ti si nas mu?il, a ne nau?il.

Let us not apply to ourselves the points of general censure; let us profit by the lesson, if possible, without assuming that we are spoken against.

Mordecai Richler

Loneliness is an endless journey where every stop is like a life lesson. Without a final stop in the circle of the cycle of life.

The sides of the personality are like the faces of the Rubik's cube in the squares of which the televisions of memories. All this is a puzzle of logic, which is the life lesson of the meaning of life.

neither of them has yet learned to accept hard necessity without making it worse by regret. That's a vital lesson, Miri. Regret is not productive. Nor is guilt, nor grief.

The mountain was teaching me a hard lesson: camaraderie is a noble thing, but in the end death is an opponent each of us would face in solitude.

Looks like you've learned your lesson! The planet of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, can even use the stink of a toot in the name of lovely justice!" -Sailor Venus

Qu'est ce que l'histoire, sinon une fable sur laquelle tout le monde est d'accord.

This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves.

Mr. White, Heath's sixth-grade teacher, once told the class that hatred wasn't the worst emotion; the worst emotion was indifference. She'd not understood what Mr. White meant until this night.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

I can see why people don't want to talk about it. But the problem if you don't is that people forget, and if people forget then the whole thing can happen again.

Suffering must be obviously futile if it is to be 'educational'. It is for this reason that our history is so unintelligible, and indeed, nothing that was true has ever made sense. 'Why was so much pain necessary ?' we foolishly ask. But it is precisely because history has made no sense that we have learnt from it, and the lesson remains a brutal one.

Those are the right and left facing pages of a printed book. And what's in the middle?" Silence around the table. Zingano offered, "A book?" "Interstellar One?" said Norton. "A SPINE," she yelled, banging the table with a fist for emphasis. "A goddamned spine. Lesson number one. Show your spine, or they'll eat you up and shit you out like the little turds you are.

The revolt always begins when the steward wants to be king. A lesson the Franks never seen to learn.