"Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power."
Read quote
8 likes
Taught Us quotes
Taught Us
171 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Taught Us
Browse quotes that often appear alongside taught us — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Taught Us quotes (page 2 of 9)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
Read quote
7 likes
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
Read quote
7 likes
"Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied."
Read quote
7 likes
"If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair."
Read quote
6 likes
"As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."
Read quote
5 likes
"Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone."
Read quote
4 likes
"The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well."
Read quote
3 likes
"Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy."
Read quote
3 likes
"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe."
Read quote
3 likes
"My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights."
Read quote
3 likes
"People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems."
Read quote
3 likes
"You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing."
Read quote
3 likes
"We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future."
Read quote
3 likes
"We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's."
Read quote
3 likes
"If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet"
Read quote
3 likes
"Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise."
Read quote
3 likes
"Religion taught us to return good for evil."
Read quote
3 likes
"If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse."
Read quote
3 likes