Lesson Quotes

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The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. — Melody Beattie
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently… — Edwin A. Abbott
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind… — Wendell Berry
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe
Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t… — Richelle Mead
You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again… — Richelle Mead
While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay… — Woody Allen
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… — Bill Bryson
This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have… — Edward Kennedy
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best… — Malcolm Gladwell
you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over! — Pearl Cleage
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future! — Livia Bitton-Jackson
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now. — Taylor Swift
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. — Lev Grossman
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… — Thomas Huxley
I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone. — Steven Morrissey
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. — Arthur C. Clarke
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us… — Margaret Fuller
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is… — Christina Aguilera
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;… — Tom Robbins
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Sonya Sones
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. — Mason Cooley

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