Quotes About Lessons

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.

Le temps est un grand professeur, mais malheureusement il tue ses élèves.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

One of Mama's parenting mantras was: "Oh, Helen Michelle, I have yet to begin to embarrass you.

In the journey to become whole, a woman will be confronted with various forms of these stages [of personal evolution]. In doing the hard work that is required, she learns important lessons about herself and increases her capacity to see the meaning of her actions. She is then able to bring more experience, wisdom, and skill to the next challenge she must face.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.

As Charles de Gaulle observed in his meditation on leadership, The Edge of the Sword (1932), the artist 'does not renounce the use of his intelligence' – which is, after all, the source of 'lessons, methods, and knowledge'. Instead, the artist adds to these foundations 'a certain instinctive faculty which we call inspiration', which alone can provide the 'direct contact with nature from which the vital spark must leap'.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

Prayer that uses previously unanswered prayers as an excuse for laziness has already ceased to be a prayer of faith. To someone who prays in faith, unanswered prayers are simply the evidence that the answer is much closer. From beginning to end, our Lord's lessons and examples teach us that prayer that is not steadfast and persistent, nor revived and refreshed, and does not gather strength from previous prayers is not the prayer that will triumph. William Arthur