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“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”

Ifs World May Individual Nations Willing Lessons Gains Compromise Cooperation Willing To Learn

Book:The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.”

Knows May Light Mother Found Nature Teach Mystery Listening Lessons Scientist Prejudice Notion Dogma Passive Bias Mother Nature Receptive Preconceived Notions Shedding Light

Author:Luther Burbank

“Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.”

Mind May Real Cities Quality Sea Lessons Perception Losing Scientist South Treasure Weed Farmers Cows Splits Fractions Pastures Redwoods Adventuring

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.”

Men Years May Stills Use Eye Young Worst Lessons Judgment Flying Old Man Excess Mars

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”

Knows Giving Mind May Sometimes Lessons Lifetime Corruption Agents Ease Mask Hook Lesson Learned High Places

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.”

Ifs May Self Stories Reality Produce Lessons Aspect Symbols Consistent Manipulation Predictions Representing Ensemble

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”

Mind May Wisdom Light Wise Air Lessons Atoms Trifles

Book:The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

“Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.”

Men Mind May Christian Dies Jesus Grace Produce Humility Lessons Let Me Humble Aids Thee Grants Despise Abandonment Saviour Footsteps True Humility

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.”

Ifs Way May Found Lessons Relation Careful Storm Rejoice Finest Grandeur

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”

Men Should Mind Kind May Children Ideas Growth Pleasure Interesting Materials Exercise Lessons Sake Profit Valuable Accurate Recalls

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

Men May Political Passion Politics Taught Revolution Lessons Sincerity Dogma Political Systems French Revolution

Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior

“Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.”

Firsts May Children Understanding Lessons Seasons Obedience Vessel April Frost Vigilant Twigs Makest

Author:Francis Quarles

“... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.”

May Able Community Natural Numbers Accepting Crime Movement Products Lessons Absolutes Safety Punishment Commit Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Marlo Thomas

“Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.”

People Writing May Self Eye Teach Taught Depends Lessons Valuable Quitting Reactions Crafts Acquire Approval Evaluate Consulting Self Taught Dispassionate

Author:Sue Grafton

“I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.”

Ifs Firsts Heart May Important Self Hurt Forget Boys Forever Trouble Lessons First Time

Book:Thirty Girls

Source: Thirty Girls

“The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.”

“When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.”

Inspirational May Persons Reason Happens Faces Asks Challenges Teach Focus Lessons Tests Complaining Things Happen Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason

Author:Rita Zahara

“There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.”

Wells May Soul Seems Past Needed Periods Lessons Endure Flats Life Lesson Alignment Marrow

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“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

“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

“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.”

Ifs Men World Mind May Ends Government Moving Law Common Fashion Produce Lessons Tasks Essence Bases Educational Secure Sufficient Interpretation Righteousness Cooperation World Government

Author:H. G. Wells

“The journey of Soul... by the lessons gained in the physical experience... it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms... which first called every soul and body into experience.”

World Firsts May Soul Body Journey Lessons Activity Infinite Various Karma Realms Soul And Body

Author:Edgar Cayce

“In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life!”

“I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.”

People Thinking May Church Taught Lessons Active Life Lesson I May Not Be

Author:Julianne Hough

“There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson.”

Wells May Art Sometimes Reason Values Speak Voice Careers Teacher Particular Ready Lessons Skills Admire Professionalism Inventiveness

Author:James D. Houston

“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.”

Thinking Way May Doe Hard Life Is Found Results Pay Hard Work Lessons Down And Expected

Author:Amanda Schull

“To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.”

May Lessons Judgment Good Things Judgment Of Others

Author:Stacy Keibler

“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.”

Ifs Believe Humans Wells May Has Beens Made Young Values Humanity Realizing Effects Lessons Conscious Ultimate Institutions Dealings

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”

May Moving Cases Lessons Right Now Remains Track China Hopefully Cycles Civilisation Sumerians

Author:Elon Musk

“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”

May Matter Motivational Cutting Willing Discipline Lessons Athlete I've Learned Life Lesson Be You Self Discipline Athletic Athletics

Book:The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

Source: The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

“Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.”

Giving Writing May Book Matter Courses Steps Teach Subjects Lessons Offers Be Good Experts Academic Explaining Subject Matter

Author:Simon Sinek

“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”

Ifs Wells May Wisdom Might Artist Poor Feet Students Lessons One Day Sitting Giants Yearning Begging

Author:Rod Taylor

“...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.”

“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”

Want Writing May Done Faces Pieces Lessons Bitter Finest Publish Manuscripts

Book:Selections from the works of Thomas Wolfe

Source: Selections from the works of Thomas Wolfe

“May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.”

Life Should May Happiness Life Is Values Forget Learning Lessons Enjoyment Life Lesson Forget It Spoil

Book:Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.”

Should May Use Dream Today Fun Stuff Achieve Lessons Your Dreams Enabling Lesson Learned Achieving Your Dreams

Author:Randy Pausch

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

May Wish Lessons Painful Flesh Heal Memories Of A Geisha Barbs

Author:Arthur Golden

“It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”

Men May Hard Steps Achieve Lessons Claims Aim Circles Significance Often Is

Book:CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter

Source: CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter

“So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.”

“Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.”

“The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.”

Should Firsts May Important Magic Fool Lessons Important Lessons

Book:Melting Stones

Source: Melting Stones

“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”

“I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.”

May Evil Lessons

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.”

People Should Heart May Problem Able Past Realizing Issues Happened Lessons Solutions Solve Survived Dilemma

Author:Barbara Mertz

“I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone.”

People Thinking May Real Sometimes Helping Realizing Journey Lessons Picks Deceived

Book:Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment

Source: Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment

“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.”

World May Important Hard Realizing Deals Knowledge Learning Lessons Demand Entitled Hard Lessons

Author:Bruce Catton

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