Taught Quotes
3452 Taught quotes by 2478 unique authors
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among…
— Lois Capps
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into…
— A. E. Housman
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
— G. Gordon Liddy
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a…
— Anita Hill
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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
— Mary Astell
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A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me…
— John Gallagher, Jr.
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Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is…
— Robert S. Johnson
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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
— Samuel Johnson
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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
— Ayn Rand
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In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy…
— Unknown Author
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But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just…
— Unknown Author
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Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy,…
— William Gurnall
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know…
— Gerda Lerner
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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
— Lynne Cheney
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So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
— Carlos Slim
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I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught…
— David O. Russell
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The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we…
— Allyson Schwartz
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having…
— Vanessa Carlton
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Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’…
— Julia Cameron
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