Taught Quotes - Page 15

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

The hairflip is something that just can’t be taught

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

Children have taught me to always be forgiving.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.