Taught Quotes

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

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

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

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

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.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.