ethical lessons Quotes

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?