Taught Quotes
3452 Taught quotes by 2478 unique authors
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly…
— Christine de Pizan
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Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.
— Mary Everest Boole
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Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without…
— Tommy Docherty
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever…
— Eugenie Scott
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This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than…
— Margaret E. Knight
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
— Esther Peterson
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Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and…
— Rich Little
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Good values are easier caught than taught.
— Zig Ziglar
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We are taught for the schoolroom not for life
— Seneca the Younger
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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
— Hermann Hesse
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We think we have to be a certain way because we have been taught to be a certain way. Actually the only truth is to…
— H. W. L. Poonja
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word…
— Justin Martyr
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The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations…
— Geronimo
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
— Quintilian
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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature…
— C.S. Lewis
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
— Rajneesh
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Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their…
— Unknown Author
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She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.
— Michael Silverblatt
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No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
— Red Grange
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If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.
— Shakti Gawain
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