Quotes About Lessons

It is comforting to be in a business where some mistakes can be made and yet a quite satisfactory overall performance can be achieved. In a sense, this is the opposite case from our textile business where even very good management probably can average only modest results. One of the lessons your management has learned—and, unfortunately, sometimes re-learned—is the importance of being in businesses where tailwinds prevail rather than headwinds.

if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.

I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

But just as the capacity to forget is a gift of grace, so memory, the recalling of the lessons we have learnt, is an essential element in responsible living." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

...The woods, the lawns, the heaths supply Lessons from Nature to the heart....

That job and the fifteen others I had before I graduated college were my own, personal "educational opportunities." They changed my life for the better, though it took me a while to understand their worth.

More will be revealed. Your son hasn't yet taught you everything he has to teach you. He taught you how to love like you've never loved before. He taught you how to suffer like you've never suffered before. Perhaps the next thing he has to teach

He taught you how to love like you've never loved before. He taught you how to suffer like you've never suffered before. Perhaps the next thing he has to teach you is acceptance. And the thing after that, forgiveness.

History teaches that evil at its most exalted is merely a wretched excess of good.

Thank you. For showing me what love is all about. And thank you for also teaching me to never love someone too much.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.

A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

The lessons in life are life

nothing is as effective as spectacular real-life cases – successful or otherwise – in persuading people.

History has a way of doing that. People appreciate it more the longer it lasts.

It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.