Teaches Quotes
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I was less angry at Carl Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.
Nat Hentoff -
Nobody teaches life anything.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal -
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
Eugene Jarecki -
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Confucius -
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
Bono U2 -
Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
David Dreman
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
Martin Luther -
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitler -
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
Chapman Cohen -
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
Mitch Albom -
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
Rose Tremain
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Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself
Willi Unsoeld -
If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches.
Andrew Davidson -
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
Demetra George -
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
William Weaks Morris
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
Rumi -
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
Michael Foreman -
Becoming rigid in a chaotic situation is like being caught in a riptide and struggling against it. If you fight, you’ll get exhausted and be swept away. Yoga is like a life raft that teaches us to observe and listen and allow ourselves to be carried by the tide until we find a place where we can safely break its hold.
Colleen Saidman -
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
Mahatma Gandhi