Quotes About Lessons

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

There is no humorist like history.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

Honey," Jammer said, "you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome.

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

History is a ribbon, always unfurling. History is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us . . .

Good sayings are like pearls strung together.

These mental lessons were the most difficult of all. I was never sure whether I mastered them or not. If I asked the bow, it would only say, frustratingly, 'There's more to learn. Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

in the sixty-four arts that noble ladies must know. I was given lessons in singing, dancing, and playing music. (The lessons were painful, both for my teachers and me, for I was not musically inclined, nor deft on my feet.)

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

Through the gentle guidance of the teachings from the Great Spiritual Teachers of different religions and the constant steering by the Law of Karma, which manifests as painful and pleasant experiences, the soul inevitably learns the lessons, gains inner strength and spiritually evolves until it achieves illumination, oneness with the Higher Soul, oneness with the Divine Spark and greater oneness with God.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

am not a well-schooled woman. Instead, I have learned my lessons from experience, mistakes, and the heat of battle. If ever there was a shining alumnus from the school of hard knocks, it is I. My diploma can be found, printed in black and blue, at points of varying interest from head to toe.

The dead are apparitions that both haunt and guide us. And maybe they've earned it. Most times, they can teach us our own history better than any book.