Taught Quotes

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

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.

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.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

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.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.