Quotes About Lessons

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

History is the same story with different costumes.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.