Taught Quotes - Page 5

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us - that there is merit in doing what is different - and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.