Harsh Lessons Quotes

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

Sometimes you learn more when you get beat 4-0 than in games you won.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.