Quotes of: Teachings Keyword

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Dune

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

Dispelling Wetiko

The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Education of a Wandering Man

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

Encounter

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

Eragon

The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.

Forgotten Fire

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Fly Away Home

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Fine, I'll teach you,' 'Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

Finding Sky

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The Fire Next Time

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

The God Delusion

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Gandhi On Non-Violence

My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible I love her as my mentor She tells me to be humble!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.

House Atreides

Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master. Master of Stupidity: Hmmm...tell me about your sexperience!

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

A brick could be utilized to teach the danger of procrastination. Ignoring the brick and pretending everything will work itself out is not going to transform it into a wall.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

The Broken Kingdoms

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

A blanket could be used to sell two-legged tables to one-legged men. This very same blanket could also teach them some Latin—specifically the phrase “Caveat Emptor.” 

Brick

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

The Book of Tea