Taught Us Quotes - Page 9

• Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.

  Thomas Sankara

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Together

  "We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Lessons from Thomas Sankara" by Akinyemi Adeseye, May 15, 2010.

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• Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Winning, Men, Isis

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• Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Hurt, Jesus

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• I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Mirrors, Self, Joy

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• Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Born, Storyteller, Humans

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• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Thinking, Long

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• I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

  Julian Baggini

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 08, 2012.

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• When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Eye, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

  Shakti Gawain

  Education, Children, Suffering

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.4, New World Library

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• If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.

  Clive Barker

  Monday, Morning, Night

  "Lord of ILLUSION". Interview with Charles lsherwood, www.clivebarker.com. February 21, 1995.

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Self, Worry, Regulation

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us - that there is merit in doing what is different - and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.

  Satoru Iwata

  Groups, Different, Nintendo

  "Longtime Nintendo president dies" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2013.

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• I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Teaching, Opposites

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Special, Hollywood, Stories

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• If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.

  Peter Sagal

  Cat, News, Want

  "Heavy Petting". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, July 4, 2015.

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Lessons, Matter

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• The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Mind, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau, Linda H. Peterson (2007). “Autobiography”, Broadview Pr

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• The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Victory, Facts

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• For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Teacher, Parent, Priests

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• They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Teaching, Differences

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Space, Long

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

  John Buchan

  Running, Long, Suffering

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Believe, Long, Judging

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

  James F. Cooper

  Justice, Sublime, Vines

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Fall, Forever, Soul

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