Lesson Quotes

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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustâ€”if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the… — Margaret Sanger
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a… — Jimmy Carter
All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've… — Kurt Cobain
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,… — Clarence Thomas
The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you… — Dale Carnegie
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through… — Walter Gilbert
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will… — Swami Vivekananda
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should… — Richard Baxter
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a… — Natalie Merchant
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. — Frank Herbert
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead… — Tony Blair
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,… — Maximilien Robespierre
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its… — Grover Cleveland
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. — John McEnroe
The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. — Matthew Henry
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton
That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not… — Patti LaBelle

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