Quotes about Lessons

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose . . . a time to gain, and a time to lose" (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 NKJV). In times of loss there are lessons to be gained. Let's not miss the purposes of God even in times of sorrow and disappointment, for He is always with us on our journey.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

There are lots of things that never go by rule, There's a powerful pile o' knowledge That you never get at college, There are heaps of things you never learn at school.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.