Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges - when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
We should have known better after the first war.
What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.
What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.
You learn more from the negative things.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.
But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
