Quotes About Lessons

Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

The fundamental lessons of life are taught in the class of truth.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The strange beauty of marriage: it's full of hard times and hard lessons that no one can ever prepare you for. But in the end, those are the things that give richness to your life together – and make your love even deeper and stronger than when it began. (on 8 things no one tells you about marriage)

I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.

I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?

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

But let not our thoughts be only of happiness. For does not the old Arab proverb — "all sunshine makes a desert" — faithfully remind us that the cloud and the storm are likewise needed for the most complete and satisfactory results?

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.

Who brings a tale takes two away.

Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Perhaps we are yet too near the great events of which this act formed so conspicuous a part, to understand its deep significance and to foresee its far-off consequences. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves, especially when they read it by the fierce and dusky light of war, or amid the deeper shadows of those sorrows which war brings to both.

History in general only informs us what bad government is.

He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it.

The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.

The night court taught me to serve, and Delauney taught me to think; but from Melisande Shahrizai, I learned how to hate.

The defeated always remember.

There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage.

Jacqueline Wilson