Quotes About Lessons

rack which Cook had provided. She was about to return to the schoolroom and suggest that they start lessons at once in order to go out into the snow as soon as they had finished, when the door shot open and Lonnie appeared. Her face was bright red and her dark eyes

The shortcomings of my generation do not have to extend on to yours.

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best." —Spanish

Perhaps George Santayana's famous aphorism that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' should be reversed – that is, it is because we remember the past that we are condemned to repeat it. The depressing re-emergence of national hatreds in the last

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to make new mistakes. And those who only learn selected lessons from history are doomed to do both.

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.

Experience is another word for mistakes.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History doesn't repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Conflict is one of the many tools that God will use to help you develop a more Christ-like character.

When a book ends, the good parts get folded up and carried around in somebody's pocket. The rest gets sold at a garage sale for a nickel.

Sometimes we learn the lessons we most desperately need in the form of illness." - Larry Dossey

History is but a tapestry of stories, imperfectly woven.

The way we see it, the Creator put his lessons everywhere. Built them right into the earth before he even put people here. Our job is to learn those lessons in the place we were given, and the way to learn those lessons is to sit still and listen.

No generation can escape history.

Listen, as Commander-in-Chief, I grieve for any loss of life. And I stand in -- I send my deepest sympathies to the loved ones who grieve over the loss of a soldier, a loved one. But the cause is a good cause, because we will never forget the lessons of 9/11. This is a part of the war on terror. And the effect of what we have done in Iraq and what we're doing in Iraq will be a very positive effect on future generations of Americans, and that's very important for people to understand.

A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.î

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings.

I will make many mistakes, have many regrets, take many risks, but I will not do what my father did. I will not turn my back on love.