Taught Quotes
3452 Taught quotes by 2478 unique authors
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,…
— Lee Atwater
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
— Margaret Atwood
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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
— Erykah Badu
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who…
— James A. Baldwin
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are…
— Joyce Banda
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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
— Tyra Banks
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
— Saint Basil
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I…
— Mario Batali
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
— Gary Bauer
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even…
— Scott Adams
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we…
— Jane Addams
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The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to…
— Chetan Bhagat
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught…
— Lewis Black
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My…
— Ben Affleck
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My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends…
— Andrea Bocelli
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