Quotes About Lessons

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

History is a vast early warning system.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

Yes, you learn your lessons as they come your way... And when you have learned them all they can stick red-hot pokers in your wife and babies and you will only laugh to see it. Because you will know by then that people don't matter a damn. Men are like corn growing. The sun burns them up and the rain washes them out and the winter freezes them, and the cavalry tramps them down, but somehow they keep growing. And none of it matters a damn so long as the whisky holds out.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Los pueblos que se apoyan sobre tumbas gloriosas son los que mejor se preparan para el porvenir",

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes