Teaches Quotes

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

When one teaches, two learn.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.