Quotes About Lessons

Their lives had been different; but one day perhaps he would open this strange book of war, and by the vivid light of personal danger read the lessons it contained.

history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind;

the United States, allowed conditions to be gradually built up which led to the very climax they dreaded most. They have only to repeat the same well-meaning, short-sighted behaviour towards the new problems which in singular resemblance confront us to-day to bring about a third convulsion from which none may live to tell the tale.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

Those who do not learn from History are condemned to repeat it.

By what process could the slaughter of ten million men and the destruction of one-third of the entire savings of the greatest nations of the world have ushered in a Golden Age?

would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future. Let no one look down on those honourable, well-meaning men whose actions are chronicled in these pages, without searching his own heart, reviewing his own discharge of public duty, and applying the lessons of the past to his future conduct.

Lately I've been tempted to leave my profession and do something else and that desire scares me. And what would you do? Anything. I don't know, write, read, maybe just study, take lessons, find out what I really want, who I really am. Maybe I'm a dilettante, is it that bad?

I tease my parents in this account of my life, but each imparted knowledge to me that has served me well over the decades. From my father: When buying a newspaper from a newsstand, never take the top one. From Mom: The label always goes in the back.

In my opinion, however, disasters such as these teach men this lesson with regard to anger: one ought not to punish even a slave in anger; for masters who have lost their tempers often do more harm to themselves than they inflict; but in dealing with enemies it is utterly and entirely wrong to launch an attack under the influence of anger and without deliberation. Anger does not look ahead, whereas deliberation is just as concerned with avoiding harm oneself as with inflicting it on the enemy.

The past is just something that's over.

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We've had bad luck with our kids — they've all grown up.

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character.

I think you can learn from history.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

C'était les grandes vacances, en somme. Au programme, cours de natation avec option bateau ivre. Expirez soufflez, expiez crevez.

I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.

She doesn't drink when she's driving. Best move I ever made, teaching her the basics of the internal combustion engine. Saved my life on a number of occasions.

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.