Lesson Quotes - page 4

Thou shalt learn, Late though it be, the lesson to be wise. (Aeschylus)
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. View quote
Carl Sagan
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. View quote
Wole Soyinka
The lesson of history is that no one learns. View quote
Steven Erikson
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change. View quote
Andy Grove
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. View quote
Malcolm X
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. View quote
Katharine Graham
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
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, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. (Swami Vivekananda)
"Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood. View quote
Herman Melville
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 time. View quote
Robert Collier
Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn. (Andy Partridge)
Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die. View quote
Garth Nix
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt. View quote
Ellsworth Kelly
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history." View quote
Russell Baker
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life. View quote
Vincent van Gogh