life lesson

noun

1. something from which useful knowledge or principles can be learned

Example Sentences

This fact was revealed with a flourish during a Life Lesson on the importance of discretion, which is a story for another day.

From The Daily Beast

“One life lesson I have learned is that between being smart or being lucky—lucky is better,” he wrote.

From The Daily Beast

I say this less as a point of pride than a friendly warning: I have now trafficked in every cliché and life lesson known to man.

From The Daily Beast

In addition to the sweat and toil, PE had an important life lesson.

From The Daily Beast

Each full of earnestness of purpose, and impressing a life lesson on the reader's mind.

From Project Gutenberg

Among them she, poor little wayfarer, had got her life lesson—how would she apply it now?

From Project Gutenberg

There I learned many a solemn life-lesson never to be forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg