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Quotes About Lessons

I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn. Now,
~ George R.R. Martin
Syrio dice que cada herida es una lección, y que cada lección te lleva un paso más allá.
~ George R.R. Martin
Thank you for your many lessons, Lord Baelish. I will never forget them. Sansa Stark
~ George R.R. Martin
I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
~ George Santayana
Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.
~ George Santayana
Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.
~ George Santayana
That remains part of the problem—that we don't know the unpleasant aspects of American history...and therefore we don't learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us. So we repeat them over and over again.
~ George Takei
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
~ George Takei
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
~ George William Curtis
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
~ Peter McWilliams
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
~ Frank Briggs
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
~ Old saying
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
~ Carl Sandburg
The best prophet of the future is the past.
~ John Sherman
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
~ Alan Paton
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.
~ Cathy Warner Weatherford
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
~ Charles H. Fowler
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
~ Anonymous
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
~ Frederick Douglass