Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Taylor Mali

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

John Muir

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

Philip Roth

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Brian Posehn

Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.

Charles Bukowski

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Donald Trump

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

Adam Sandler

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Albert Einstein

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Amartya Sen

The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes things don't end okay.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Mitch Albom

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.