85 Quotes About Taught-us

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.

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.

In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.