If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are… — Max Mayfield Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of… — Mika Copy Share Image
All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't… — Lisa Rinna Copy Share Image
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
“Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned… — Gladys Bronwyn Stern Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid… — Orosius Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image