The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
Hun Sen

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner

The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important.
Otto Friedrich

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
Kip Winger

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
Vince Gill

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
George Whitefield

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Henry Bolingbroke

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Tony Visconti

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.
David Gill

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.
William Cavendish

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
Jerry Costello

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Eliza Haywood