Taught Quotes - Page 23

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.