Best Taught Me Wisdom
1179 Taught Me quotes by 948 unique authors
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My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.
— Bobbi Brown
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During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience.…
— Huey Newton
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of…
— Zack de la Rocha
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the…
— Chuck Jones
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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
— Satya Nadella
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Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into…
— Grant Morrison
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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting.…
— June Jordan
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship
— Tracey Emin
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the…
— Tammy Baldwin
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No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we…
— Benjamin B. Ferencz
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Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it…
— Thomas McGuane
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Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
— Miles Davis
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My mum taught me to have a soul.
— Stella McCartney
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
— Carlos Slim
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging…
— Lisa See
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