Taught Quotes - Page 31

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.

People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.