Taught Quotes - Page 21

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.