Teaches Quotes

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.