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“Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.”

World Book Lessons

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.”

Thinking Firsts Life Is Cases Sorrow Lessons Smoke Life Lesson Outsiders Petty Exceptional

Author:James Russell Lowell

“When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.”

Has Beens Humanity Enemy Teach Kindness Cases Exercise Lessons Excuse Prisoner Uniforms Benevolence Excuse Me Severity Retaliation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.”

Ifs Thinking Should Different Wisdom Age Religion Born History Happened Human Nature Lessons Accidents Nine Somewhere Else Different Religions

Author:Richard Dawkins

“So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”

God Love Is Lord Taught Ought Lessons Dear Dear Love

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.”

Needs Years War Able Lessons Horror Protect Hundred Years Ago Threat Determined Ancestor Domination Homeland Devastated Resolute Southerner Arms Race

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.”

Matter Kids Hours Week Minutes Couple Lessons Swim Repetition

Author:Summer Sanders

“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”

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Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”

Problem Science Social Natural Conditions Events Lessons Negative Presses Instance Prime Relativity Social Science Natural Science Correlation

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.”

Ifs Men Today Courses Modern Development Lessons Ignored Catastrophe Hurricanes Amnesia Collision Modern Man Coastal

Author:Max Mayfield

“I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.”

Seems Sports History Goes On Lessons Compare Nonsense Without You Ephemeral Life Goes On Transitory Helen Moody

Author:Billie Jean King

“There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.”

“He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.”

People Pay Human Nature Lessons Smart Intelligence Expensive

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.”

World Mind Science Winning Teach Pieces Building Lessons Machines Intelligent Mathematics Trade Species Vanity Who We Are Our World Better Place Intelligent Machines

Author:Astro Teller

“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.”

Trying Wells Science Games Realizing Class Teacher Lessons One Day Paper Sitting Mathematics Finished Mathematical Dozen Toes Papers Analyzing Tics Doodling Tic Tacs

Author:Martin Gardner

“If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.”

Ifs Left Causes Lessons Blessing Glad Lost Love

Author:India.Arie

“My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.”

Moments Character Bigs Motivational School Force Challenges Decision Education Lessons Obstacles Scare Life Lesson Classroom Right Decision Define You Make The Right Decision

Author:Bear Grylls

“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”

Two Values Three Force Cities Balance Discipline Lessons Strategy Chaos Architecture Block Distinction Anarchy Formal Irrelevant Fluid Manhattan Builder Grids Metropolis

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain”

Knows Pain Order Fall Grows Loses Hurt Lessons Sad Gains Sad Love Sad Life Make You Cry Love And Sad Sad And Happy

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.”

Should Education Teach Lessons Experience Valuable Backgrounds Valuable Lessons

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.”

Shows Today Lessons Intellectual Entertainment Storytelling Irony Related Tension Exploration

Author:Matthew Weiner

“One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.”

“I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.”

Needs May Children Gone Grace Health Lessons Aids Appeals My Children

Author:Mary Fisher

“The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.”

Children Lessons Lows Standards Bounds Midst Slums Profanity Obscenity Impurity

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.”

Ifs Mind Made War Ends Whole Lost Levels Seeing Taught Baby Lessons Enlightenment Understood Appreciated Womb

Author:RZA

“I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.”

Feels Able Rocks Lessons Piano Yang Yin And Yang Piano Lesson

Author:Son Lux

“I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.”

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Author:Jordan Peele

“I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.”

Trying Mind Problem Speak Lessons Mouths

Author:Christina Hendricks

“I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!”

Acting Lessons Coaches Puppy

Author:Kim Coates

“When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to find its way to cooperate with people and bring a global peace that could bring great prosperity to this globe, there is still a chance of that, and that's a big lesson from history. We are not paying attention to that.”

People Ifs World Way Looks Stills Country Bigs America Chance Attention Situation Lessons Prosperity Pay Attention Globes Global Peace

Author:Oliver Stone

“The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.”

People Important Causes Black Lessons Black People Demise Important Lessons

Author:KRS-One

“I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it, if he does, individually - and that is that, in human relations, particularly sexual relations and so on, the person you might most trust and feel most comfortable and easy with isn't necessarily the person your heart is going to fall for.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Heart Persons Doe Might Fall Easy Lessons Comfortable Relation Human Relations

Author:Robert MacNeil

“You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.”

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Author:Stella Chess

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“The lesson here is this: Do what God says to do, nothing more and nothing less. There is no game here. There is one move, and it belongs to God. Your job is to follow it.”

Jobs Moving Games Lessons

Book:God's Generals: William Branham

Source: God's Generals: William Branham

“Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.”

Lessons Letting Go

Author:Eloisa James

“I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.”

Persons Made Different Earth Mistake Source Lessons Avoiding

Author:Valentina

“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.”

World Want Dies Water Sun Flower Lessons Spring Roots Essence Raises Mortals Soil Delicate I Want You Perfume Petals Muddy Elementals Lotuses

Author:Colleen Houck

“That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.”

Universe Justice Lessons Laughter Chiefs I Have Learned Texture Justice Will Prevail

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you love to read. The Anatomy Lesson is just such a novel. In stunning prose, Nina Siegal animates Rembrandt's first masterpiece, spinning a deeply affecting tale of love, loss and redemption as she reveals the secrets of the human soul. It is a gorgeous literary page turner of immense sympathy and elegance, equal in artistic lan to its inspiration. Brava!”

“When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.”

“The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.”

Way May Dream Life Is Sound Clear Lessons Secure Your Dreams Follow Your Dreams

Author:Douglas Bloch

“I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.”

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Author:Jim Abbott

“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.”