Quotes About Lessons

The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Some of us don't. Some of us add up all of the smaller changes into one big lesson, and find our way home as well. A

You are living for the deeper truth hidden in the pain of circumstance—your soul's lessons packed in your chimidunchik.

There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old loves.

WE COMMENTED TO Corrie about the practicalness of the things she recalled, how her memories seemed to throw a spotlight on problems and decisions we faced here and now. "But," she said, "this is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

peaceful empire Hadrian inherited was by no means long-established, and the recent past provided both lessons for would-be tyrants and examples of successful, survivable, rule. At the time of Hadrian's birth Rome was ruled by the benign and thrifty Vespasian, whose most notorious deed was taxing urinals.

there's not one goddamn person in this world who doesn't have a bad memory or two to take with them through life.

Who, who, does not have their basket of trips? It

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

History teaches us what human beings are like in reality rather than what we would like them to be. And when we deal with the sum total of history's record, high-minded ideals like those of Plato's Philosopher Rulers have to be pushed off over the side. Reality teaches a very different set of lessons about politics—and Machiavelli's ambition was to present them to posterity

You are only remembered and become famous because of your mistakes. —DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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

Arthur Scott Bailey

Por primera y —lamentablemente— última vez, la memoria histórica se utilizó no para enfrentar, sino para unir sin olvidar.

Desde muy joven había aprendido, a costa de algunas rápidas desilusiones propias, una lección crucial: las mujeres se sentían atraídas por los caballeros, pero preferían irse a la cama con los canallas. Era matemático. —¿Te

For his first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

When she was small and at home on a rare sick day, she'd never quite trusted that her classroom would be there, with the day and its lessons going on, if she wasn't. "Solipsism": nine letters. Of course Ben had known the word.....It was how the rest of the world felt sometimes now that she was someone's mum. As if almost everywhere and everything else had disappeared. Sometimes, that wasn't so bad.

Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don't learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

The history of ideologies should teach modesty, or at least warn against fixations and biases.