Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Votes: 6
Edgar Allan PoePeople must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. Votes: 4
Nelson MandelaI taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. Votes: 0
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyCivic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. Votes: 0
Donna BrazilePatsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed. Votes: 0
Reba McEntireExperience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaignePrejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollPhilosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. Votes: 0
Alexandre DumasThe sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannExperience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites. Votes: 0
Michela WrongShe taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. Votes: 0
Michael SilverblattIf history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingI taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardJohn McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. Votes: 0
Colm ToibinPersonally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillDemocracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught. Votes: 0
Anthony KennedyI actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. Votes: 0
Judah FriedlanderJBâs mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women. Votes: 0
Charlaine HarrisThrough the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. Votes: 0
Stevie WonderOf all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeI actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught. Votes: 0
Judah FriedlanderWorking with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director. Votes: 0
Angelina JolieEducation is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. Votes: 0
George SavileSport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble. Votes: 0
Charlene, Princess of MonacoWhat I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandI am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Votes: 0
Winston S. ChurchillFirst let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing. Votes: 0
Emerson FittipaldiI was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters. Votes: 0
Gerald Chertavian[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. Votes: 0
Sarah Moore GrimkeFor in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least. Votes: 0
William DavenantIt is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught. Votes: 0
Knute NelsonSo many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoThings musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodMy father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist. Votes: 0
Wladimir KlitschkoFailure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried. Votes: 0
H. L. BalcombIt was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it. Votes: 0
Walter ScottThere will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaIn true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMaybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity. Votes: 0
Michael TreanorAll the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonLife has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling. Votes: 0
Richard Paul EvansMy mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish. Votes: 0
Aerin LauderI had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonJudi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. Votes: 0
Francesca AnnisMy mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary. Votes: 0
Terry McMillanHe taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one. Votes: 0
Catherine Zeta-JonesMy old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinDad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew. Votes: 0
Al Unser, Jr.There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Votes: 0
Marcus Fabius QuintilianusOne's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her. Votes: 0
H. L. BalcombWe spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught. Votes: 0
Alexandra StoddardThe foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. Votes: 0
Jerome BrunerOne of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff. Votes: 0
Ted LangeMy grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. Votes: 0
Elena RogerYou don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. Votes: 0
Stephen AmbroseMy father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful. Votes: 0
Alexa ChungI was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right. Votes: 0
Tim HardawayI learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineOne of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. Votes: 0
Tobias WolffMy experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnScience has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there. Votes: 0
Hans Christian von BaeyerLaugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously. Votes: 0
Michelle DockeryBeing a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. Votes: 0
Meryl StreepOne thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!" Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownTime has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonOur culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it. Votes: 0
Nancy FridayWe're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear. Votes: 0
Laurel MellinMy dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain. Votes: 0
Natalie MassenetIt takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. Votes: 0
Amy PoehlerI've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Votes: 0
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonExperience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside. Votes: 0
Chris BoshI was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensIt is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.
Christopher PaoliniHow can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
George Bernard ShawMy parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
George ThorogoodIdeas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.
Emile M. CioranAt different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyNothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
Galileo GalileiI have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist
Victoria JacksonI've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.
Anthony JoshuaAnd stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.
Deepak ChopraIf Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet
J. K. RowlingI went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Jackie DeShannonI was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.
Nonito DonaireI was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.
Richard MealeSo it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
Sheldon B. KoppI feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
Arno Allan PenziasIf you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandThe generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan PoeBut Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
Geoffrey ChaucerJesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.
Ken HutchersonWe need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.
Simone ElkelesBeing on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.
Victor BuonoAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
Adam JohnsonI borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian BelewMy father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.
Anne Morrow LindberghIf experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.
Edward BrittonI go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
Esther PetersonHimsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Mahatma GandhiCharacter formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
Maria MontessoriNo penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
Murasaki ShikibuAs an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.
Ronda RouseyWe're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Ziad K. AbdelnourExperience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Donald TrumpHis love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund WallerLife has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Ellen GlasgowHer lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
George R. R. MartinMy experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.
Pittacus LorePeople had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,
Shane ClaiborneSo let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund SpenserDry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
John KeatsI was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'
Mike NessStart right now to put into practice some of the things that have been taught to us today.
Nathan Eldon TannerHe taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
Shimon PeresWell-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.
Dallin H. Oaks... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
Eunice Kennedy ShriverThe most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
Ivan IllichAge had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.
Jeaniene FrostThe way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
John Lee HookerWe are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
Robin G. CollingwoodLet the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.
Arno C. GaebeleinAfricans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.
Bertrand RussellWhatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.
Catherine PonderWe are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
David Bezmozgisand taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy.
Garry MarshallReligion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Harry Emerson FosdickI was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
Jane FondaWhat people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.
Jorge PosadaSports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.
Lynn SherrYou just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
Merrill MarkoeScott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.
Milton MayerI was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar RobertsonHeav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander PopeBut we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
Arthur SymonsI am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!
Eric Hernandez[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
Jim JarmuschSee that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
John RuskinI never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.
Joseph Smith, Jr.I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
Len ElmoreBeing in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
Lynne TillmanI, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIf football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran TarkentonI've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.
Gigi HadidMaking the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
Guy MaddinRidicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is
J. Allen HynekIâve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.
Lamar JohnsonMy mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.
Marie OsmondPrejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
Michael JacksonThe things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
Richie Samboraintelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate
Saul WilliamsWe have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan JeffersMy father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.
Tim LincecumThe most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Ziggy MarleyEducation is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
Oscar WildeMuch of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.
Charles P. KindlebergerMy sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.
Chic MurrayMaybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taughtâprayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
Donald BarthelmeThe nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.
Helene AylonLove taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
John DrydenMostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
John Grogan[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
Joycelyn EldersMen do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.
Michelle PfeifferCenturies of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
Arturo Pérez-ReverteWhy not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
Carter G. WoodsonMy dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.
Eric HernandezIf life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
Joe AbercrombieThe only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
Lucian Freud[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.
Pauline OliverosSkills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
Raghu RaiI've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
Ray LewisI think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
Samuel AlitoI journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Tom RobbinsClearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
W. Somerset MaughamPhysical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.
William Edward Hartpole LeckyI really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.
Amber RoseTeachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B. F. SkinnerThe most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
Frank BrunoMy parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
Haley ReinhartThe Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening"often rude awakening.
Jay MichaelsonI simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
Martin Luthermost people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
Mary McCarthyMy sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life
Peggy FlemingBoth my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.
Walt DisneyCourage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets⦠any sound investment will eventually pay off.
Carlos SlimLife had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
Dean KoontzTime taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.
EyedeaJesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
Francis SchaefferI learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
George Bernard ShawSchool prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
Ivan IllichDo you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf youâre taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything
Kanye WestMy mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!
Lela RoseI was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
Amy TanI've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
David MorrisseyIt is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Henry LawsonShe supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
Jhumpa LahiriMy father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
Kim WildeMy opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
Larry BirdI love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
Michael AngaranoIf there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.
Neil GaimanMy ex-wife has never broken 150. I wish she would stop telling people I taught her how to play golf.
Bruce LanskyI can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
James GleickFeeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Joyce BrothersMy parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
Kanye WestThere are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.
Kathleen TurnerMy father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
Neil OliverIt is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.
Peter HellerExperience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
Terry PratchettThe worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
Theodore RooseveltWHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR? WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN?...
Malcolm XFashion was my teacher.It taught me how to live. When I see clothes I want to become worthy of them.
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