Experience teaches. [ Proverb ]
Sorrow teaches virtue. [ A. de Musset ]
Travel teaches toleration. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Only the event teaches fools. [ Liv ]
He teaches ill that teaches all. [ Proverb ]
Which is the best government?
That which teaches self-government. [ Goethe ]
Teaching of others teaches the teacher. [ Proverb ]
Conversation teaches more than meditation. [ Proverb ]
He teaches me to be good that does me good. [ Proverb ]
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. [ William Shakespeare ]
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. [ Ward Beecher ]
Character teaches over our head, above our wills. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. [ James A. Froude ]
However talkative a woman may be, love teaches her silence. [ Rochebrune ]
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies. [ Proverb ]
The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? [ William Shakespeare ]
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and rant. [ Butler ]
It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. [ Richter ]
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. [ Carlyle ]
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. [ Emerson ]
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]
Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it. [ Proverb ]
Philosophy teaches us to bear with calmness - the misfortunes of our friends.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. [ Carlyle ]
Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]
In teaching patience and perseverance, also Nature teaches us a secret of happiness. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. [ Burgh ]
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. [ Landor ]
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. [ Willmott ]
The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. [ Spinoza ]
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. [ Emerson ]
The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches every thing else, and not that. [ John Sterling ]
The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. [ John Sterling ]
Since love teaches how to trick the tricksters, how much reason have we to fear it - we who are poor simple creatures! [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. [ Montaigne ]
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. [ Seneca ]
It is books that teaches us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enables us to recall them with satisfaction when old. [ L. Hunt ]
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]
Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it. [ J. Beaumont ]
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]