Taught Quotes

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

They taught me different was wrong.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.