Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you. '
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Sport. . . teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.
HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice. . . even when all seems dark around us.
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
History teaches us hope.
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.
The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
Philosophy teaches you to think big.