Taught Quotes · Page 68

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

— David Gelernter

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

— Fran Lebowitz

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

— Ziggy Marley

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing…

— Tom Hooper

“If there's one thing you taught me, it's to never trust an answer that's actually another question.”

— Karen Hawkins

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that…

— Howard Zinn

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he…

— Vince Cable

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be…

— George Whitefield

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for…

— Thomas S. Monson

With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances…

— Malik Yusef

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught…

— Ronnie James Dio

The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and…

— Frederick Lenz

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying…

— Gary Sheffield

I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was…

— Wayne Dyer

Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.…

— William Zinsser

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…

— Audre Lorde

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow…

— Carlo Collodi

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in…

— Harold Bloom

I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against…

— Chris Hayes

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

— Carlos Slim

“much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a…

— Napoleon Hill

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

— Fran Tarkenton

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off…

— George W. Bush

Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a…

— Anonymous

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for…

— Edmund Spenser

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

— Nicholas Sparks

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want…

— Mayim Bialik

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance…

— Maya Angelou

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of…

— Allen Covert

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

— Walt Disney

Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good.

— Diana Rigg

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

— Jesse Taylor

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a…

— David Wong

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of…

— Paula Poundstone