Lessons Quotes - Page 28

• The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Devalue, Clear, Inflation

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• Man's books are but man's alphabet,
  Beyond and on his lessons lie -
  The lessons of the violet,
  The large gold letters of the sky;
  The love of beauty, blossomed soil,
  The large content, the tranquil toil:
  The toil that nature ever taught,
  The patient toil, the constant stir,
  The toil of seas where shores are wrought,
  The toil of Christ, the carpenter;
  The toil of God incessantly
  By palm-set land or frozen sea.

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Book, Men

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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• 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.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.433, Herman Melville

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• When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Interesting, Percussion, Schoolmates

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

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Wisdom, Light

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334

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• For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Simple, People

  "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter XIV, 1963.

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

  Maurice Ashley

  Thinking, Chess, Losing

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• History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Jobs, Home, Ambition

  "Lessons in Foreign Intervention". news.bbc.co.uk. June 11, 2007.

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• I did learn from many mistakes. First and foremost, I learned that it is important to create a wide base of support within the LDP. In forming the cabinet this time, I included almost all the members of the LDP whom I ran against during the party election for president. Also, as a result of the lessons I learned, this time my policy priorities have become very clear. This would include first and foremost restoring a robust economy. I believe this has resulted in the strong support that I am getting from the people.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Mistake, Party

  "Transcript of interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". Washington Post interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Giving, Roles, Weapons

  Pierre Bourdieu's speech at the conference of the AFEF in Limoges, October 30, 1977.

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• 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.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

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• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  Plato

  Army, Fighting, Men

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

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• 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.

  John Muir

  Storm, May, Way

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.558, Library of America

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• 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.

  Russell Baker

  Looks, Recipes, Next

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.75, Diversion Books

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• It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

  Isaac Asimov

  Distance, Space, Focus

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Foundation and Empire”, p.111, Spectra

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

  James Gleick

  Taken, Feet, Acting

  1994 In the NewYork Times Magazine, 1 May

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Real, Campaigns

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

  Paul Theroux

  Mean, Past, Want

  "America the Overfull". www.nytimes.com. December 31, 2006.

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• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Russia, America, Firsts

  Chicago Sun-Times, December 13, 1987.

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• Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

  Ellen G. White

  Voice, Heavenly, Eternal

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.83, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Bible is God's great lesson book.

  Ellen G. White

  Book

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book III of IV”, p.1083, Lulu Press, Inc

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