Quotes About Lessons

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Time will teach you more lessons than I ever can.

Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom?

Pero algunas lecciones hay que aprenderlas con el corazón también para entenderlas de verdad. Es muy fácil ser madre o padre antes de tener hijos.

La historia antigua es algo terrible cuando es la propia, ¿verdad? No se puede cambiar. Ninguno de nosotros puede retroceder para hacer las cosas de otra manera. Sólo podemos avanzar y esperar que el pasado por lo menos nos haya enseñado algo de sabiduría para llevar con nosotros.

Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us, even in the leafless winter, even in the ashy city. I am thinking now of grief, and of getting past it from "Starlings in Winter

My teacher taught me a ton of things. Some of it was invaluable, some of it was completely useless. Yours did too, right? Lots of things... countless things. We're on our way there there, too, you know? To their side. The side that leaves behind instead of inherits. It may be troublesome but its the way of the world.

Let my tale be a warning. Sure as blood shall be all our undoing, it is stories that set us all free. The stories are all that matter.

Then Elie spoke, describing how in 1945—paradoxically—he had emerged from the camp feeling hopeful about the future. Hopeful, he said, because he assumed that the world had surely learned once and for all that hatred was useless and racism stupid and "the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations…is meaningless.

just as Angela Merkel's willingness to absorb the tragic lessons of her own nation's past made a difference.

History cannot be a sword to justify injustice or a shield against progress. It must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

She'd grown up hard and fast, the way most children of addicts did, and had learned a thing or two along the way. At ten, she learned that no address was permanent, at twelve, that no promise was sacred, and at sixteen, that there was no such thing as safe. There were other lessons too. Lessons that were still etched in her mind—and her flesh.

that mothers' and daughters' hearts can be crushed so repeatedly without learning to defend themselves.

I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.

chastised when they have misbehaved, and taught the difference between right and wrong. Now, where is my dressing gown?