The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-Powell

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
Richard M. Daley

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
John Sterling

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.
Orson Scott Card

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil Gibran

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
Richard Stallman

When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Will Durant

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.
Mariel Hemingway

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick

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.
Allen Klein