Lesson Quotes
1607 Lesson quotes by 1160 unique authors
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You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our…
— F. Sionil José
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I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has…
— David Levithan
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Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up…
— Lawrence Anthony
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There’s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just don’t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you can’t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do.
— Joss Whedon
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Never a failure,always a lesson
— Rihanna
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I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can…
— Etty Hillesum
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The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as…
— Alain de Botton
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Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy today and choose…
— Melina Marchetta
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
— Salman Rushdie
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children,…
— Louise Erdrich
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He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things…
— Mitch Albom
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The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
— George R. R. Martin
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...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends,…
— Abraham Maslow
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I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing…
— Cecelia Ahern
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
— Oscar Wilde
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The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
— Cormac McCarthy
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I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but…
— Surya Das
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Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the…
— Terry Pratchett
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You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword…
— Robert Jordan
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I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a…
— Gayle Forman
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That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now,…
— Graham Swift
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