Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

Love is a lesson worth learning.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?