Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Chavela Vargas

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

Charles Koch

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

J. I. Packer

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

E. B. White

We wanted to be up to par. That's one of the things Scotty taught us over the years. We've got to play together to have success.

Kirk Franklin

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

Karl Malone

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Jerry Harrison

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

Graham Greene

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

Howard Zinn

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Hannah Arendt

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

Felix Baumgartner

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

They taught me that we need each other. Things are not always easy, but being together is all we need. We are blessed.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

They know the basics, and they do what is taught to them, and they do it well.

Janet Fitch

Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

Janet Fitch

She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.

Moby

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.

Jean Alesi

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

Myles Munroe

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Ian Mcewan

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

I don't think anything should be taught as dogma,

Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Patrick Rothfuss

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

Mark Victor Hansen

It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

Mark Victor Hansen

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught.

Publilius Syrus

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Nelson Mandela

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.