1,028 Quotes About Lessons

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.