Lessons Quotes
2483 quotes by 1869 authors
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls…
— Aristophanes
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our…
— Edward Bach
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
— James M. Barrie
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,…
— Charles A. Beard
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in…
— Warren G. Bennis
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
— Ben Bernanke
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking…
— Justin Bieber
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it…
— Bjork
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Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture…
— Lionel Blue
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I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't…
— Andrea Bocelli
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In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
— Tom Bodett
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and…
— Henry Bolingbroke
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among…
— Edward de Bono
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
— Ray Bradbury
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