Quotes About Lessons

History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It's not the unknown past we're doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.

the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.

Never make a blood drinker of a greater age, said Eudoxia. For a greater mortal age can only lead to misery later on from habits learned in mortal life.

I would have given you my secrets the first I came with you to this house. I told you then that such a place could draw you out of eternity, that it was as the castles of old. Remember the patterns, Julien, the graceful battlements. And through the mist you will see them, distinct. But you would not have my lessons then. Will you have them now? I know you. You are alive. You didn't want to hear about death.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

just about every company forgot the lesson of the Cow. Instead of taking the money and using it to create a series of innovations that could lead to the next Cow (at a higher, bigger level), these companies took profits.

Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge

La pobreza no te hace fuerte ni te da lecciones de perseverancia. No, la pobreza sólo te enseña a ser pobre.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Homer had transformed a lying colonial asshole into one of the most admired literary figures in human history. So, Corliss asked, what lessons could we learn from Homer? To be considered epic, one needed only to employ an epic biographer.

It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of teaching us some of life's richest and deepest lessons.

Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

Yo, dumbass. What do you think she'd be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can't kill him? (Hauk) You're afraid of handling explosives. (Nykyrian) One day I'm going to get over that and when I do…(Hauk) I'll wisely stop annoying you. (Darling)

Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)

Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power? In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, Just because you can doesn't mean you should. And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right, Wulf said. When the other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, I guess I'm the only one he ever said that one to.

Come on, where did you learn to fight? Miss Manners' School for Girls? My baby sister could hit harder than you when she was three years old. Damn, if you're going to turn Daimon, the least you could do is take a few fighting lessons so you can make my boring job more interesting. (Wulf)

Aunt Mari says that the assholes in our lives are our biggest blessings. How so? Without them, we'd take the ones who aren't for granted. Assholes give us needed perspective to appreciate the people who really love us.

We all have scars, Kere. Inside and out. Wounds that go so deep, they leave a permanent mark on us. But that doesn't make them ugly or revolting. They were hard lessons learned and for better or worse, they changed us. No matter how hard you try to hide them, they will always be there. And I think your scars are beautiful because they are what have made you the man I care about." - Zarya Starska

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Life experience is the best teacher.