The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.
I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.
Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
In government they learned their lesson. They don't trust artists anymore. Now the money has to go through arts organizations. But, yeah, back then you could get a grant, and I got $5,000 - a huge amount of money.
The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.
. . . the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.