Taught Quotes

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

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

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

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

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.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

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.

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

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

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

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

God has taught me that I can trust in Him. No matter what-whether things are good or bad-I know I can always trust in Him. And that has really allowed me to go All In for Him.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

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

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.