Logo
Quote by George Washington
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. – George Washington

Other quotes by George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington

Category:
Friendship
Author
George Washington
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Experience
category

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. – Author Unknown

Category:
Experience

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

Category:
Experience

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. – William Blake

Category:
Experience

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. – Carl Jung

Category:
Experience

Random Quotes

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. – Claude Debussy

Category:
Art

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. – Ruth Benedict

Category:
Trust

Jennas traveled with me theyve both traveled with their dad. This is the only time theyve been old enough in all of their dads campaigns to really be involved in. – Laura Bush

Category:
dad

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus

Category:
Death