Quotes About Lessons

Scars are lessons, or victories, memorialized in flesh.

Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Don't drop your books. You might lose your lesson.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.

My point is that focusing on the past, present or future can have both positive and negative effects. Excessive worry about the future can be bad, while hopes and dreams can be good. Regret because of the past can be destructive, but learning lessons from previous events and having good memories can be great. Focusing intently on the present is usually stress-relieving and liberating, but sometimes the present moment is too sad or horrible to dwell on.

It can be easy to forget the lessons of history, including the tragedies of war, and ramp up divisive and destructive rhetoric without concern for the consequences.

The other mitigating circumstance was my thinking that I knew all there was to know about love because I'd read novels when, in fact, the only thing that truly teaches us about life is a punch in the face.

Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.

When you fall, you must remember to let go of the rope!" They both laughed out loud at this lighthearted lesson because the need to let go was so obvious. I remember this incident well because of the long-lasting impression it formed in me.

Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.

Whatever the theological and ritual differences among modern Jews, Christians, and Muslims (in all their diversity), both internally and externally, the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 is for all of them an essential episode in their intertwined and often competitive histories. Countless people over the last two thousand years have drawn strategic, philosophical, spiritual, and personal lessons from the war of Jews

She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.

Live and learn and pass it on.

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up.

You need to screw up to learn. Experience is the best teacher.

At moments of deep uncertainty, Remember what hurt you in the past, and never forget what it taught you. That letting go is a matter of self-worth.