Lesson Quotes
1607 quotes by 1160 authors
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Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered…
— Tom Lehrer
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them…
— Hugo Black
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For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I…
— Bobby Fischer
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My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.
— Unknown Author
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The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is…
— Robert Breault
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next…
— Robert Collier
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Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with…
— Kofi Annan
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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
— Kirk Kirkpatrick
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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only…
— Napoleon Hill
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World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when…
— David Frum
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I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in…
— Unknown Author
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Every happening is a lesson, a message.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within…
— Clare Short
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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which…
— Oliver North
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I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet.…
— Adriana Trigiani
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The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe.…
— Tyler Cowen
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest…
— Peter Kreeft
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All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.
— Peter Akinola
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