Taught Quotes

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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had… — Bernie Krause
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. — Jerome Bruner
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school. — Kage Baker
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and… — Steffi Graf
My mum taught me to have a soul. — Stella McCartney
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has… — Christopher Dawson
I was taught that pain is bad. — Keith Miller
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to… — Junior Brown
He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great… — Sebastian Barry
... Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't… — Billy Gibbons
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans… — Lenny Breau
All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real. — Bill Hicks
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. — Elwyn Brooks White
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's… — Robert Caro
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he… — Robert Caro
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not. — Irena Sendler
One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath. — Elaine Paige
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will… — Bruce D. Perry

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