Lesson Quotes

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. (Henry L. Stimson)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. View quote
Gerald Ford
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. View quote
Emo Philips
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. View quote
Henry Miller
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. View quote
Diane Sawyer
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. View quote
James Russell Lowell
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill)
A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. View quote
Cicero
This taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is. View quote
John McEnroe
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 be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. View quote
William Cowper
Remember, the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves. View quote
James A. Garfield
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. View quote
Lewis Carroll
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. (Bobby Fischer)
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. View quote
Malcolm X
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. View quote
Thomas Sowell