More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
Philosophy teaches you to think big.
Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.
Travel teaches as much as books.
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
As an old man. . . looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about. . . is suffering, affliction.
That teacher teaches best who teaches least.
Help one another: this is what Jesus teaches us and this what I am doing, and doing with all my heart.
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
Being a good example teaches others to be good.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.