Quotes About Lessons

The best prophet of the future is our past.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

We cannot escape history.

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

history, when examined closely, always yields up people, events, and moral testing grounds more revealing than any but the greatest of novelists could invent.

Nous avons appris en Europe, par une dure expérience, que les gouvernements étaient bons à quelque chose, et que la liberté mal cultivée donnait, comme tous les arbres sauvages, des fruits souvent très-amers.

You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Live and learn from fools and from sages.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

One winter a Farmer found a Viper frozen and numb with cold, and out of pity picked it up and placed it in his bosom. The Viper was no sooner revived by the warmth than it turned upon its benefactor and inflicted a fatal bite upon him; and as the poor man lay dying, he cried, "I have only got what I deserved, for taking compassion on so villainous a creature." Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

These are weighty topics, and the brief fables that address them do not claim to solve the problems that they embody, but then neither do they simply brush such problems aside, pretending that they do not exist.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.

We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.

The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all your lessons; joy is your lesson

Cuántas veces habré oído: «Hace tiempo que tengo el libro, he leído algunas partes, pero no consigo entenderlo. Empecé a ejecutar las lecciones del Libro de ejercicios, pero lo dejé. Sé que el Curso es muy poderoso y que podría cambiar mi vida, pero me costaba mucho ponerlo en práctica.

Robert Black: ...looking forward to it. Sounds like his writings have taught you a lot... Randall Carver: ...Yes. Dunsany's work teaches subtlety, concealing momentous events in otherwise quiet passages.

The Greeks understood this relationship between man and the machinations of the universe. Their tragedies taught us that we need to learn raw humility in the fickle face of fate. Tragic heroes marched out into the world full of pride, biased vision and a mighty capacity for self-deception. Fate ultimately brought them to their knees. The lesson for us is not that we are doomed but that we must reassess the control we think we wield.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself." ? Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata