Quotes About Lessons

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

Mistakes are the dues you pay for living a full life. — Sophia Loren

On the bus, all the bears were talking about the things they were going to do at school—soccer practice, science projects, music lessons—all kinds of things! H-m-m, thought Brother. Sister

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

Everyone cites [Charles Schulz], but it's with good reason. He taught me timing, tone, character development, practically everything.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

The experiences of life teach truth.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Through studying the past we learn our future.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

The market might have learned a simple lesson: Don't make loans to people who can't repay them. Instead it learned a complicated one: You can keep on making these loans, just don't keep them on your books. Make the loans, then sell them off to the fixed income departments of big Wall Street investment banks, which will in turn package them into bonds and sell them to investors.

The market might have learned a simple lesson: Don't make loans to people who can't repay them. Instead it learned a complicated one: You can keep on making these loans, just don't keep them on your books. Make the loans, then sell them off to the fixed income departments of big Wall Street investment banks

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything. O

We listened to the man because he had something to tell us, and us alone. Not how to play baseball, though he did that better than anyone. Not how to win, though winning was wonderful. Not even how to sacrifice. He was teaching us something far more important: how to cope with the two greatest enemies of a well-lived life, fear and failure. To make the lesson stick, he made sure we encountered enough of both.