Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

Robert B. Parker

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

I would like to thank my new friend. She has taught me never to give up.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Thomas Moore

My only books, / Were Woman's looks, / And Folly's all they taught me.

Clayton Christensen

Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

D. A. Carson

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Cory Monteith

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Douglas Coupland

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

David Foster

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Allyson Schwartz

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

Chuck Palahniuk

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

Angelina Jolie

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Alvin Dark

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .

Anna Louise Strong

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Ani Difranco

They taught me different was wrong.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Audre Lorde

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

Ariel Sharon

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Daniel H. Wilson

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

Charles Bukowski

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.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.