Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Oprah Winfrey

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

Margaret Thatcher

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

Liya Kebede

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Mario Puzo

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Niklaus Wirth

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Nicholas Sparks

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Mark Twain

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

G. H. Hardy

[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Emile Zola

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Epictetus

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Elaine Stritch

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

Hjalmar Schacht

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Kesha

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Jonathan Swift

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

Orhan Pamuk

Painting taught literature to describe.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

James Lovelock

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Martin Luther

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

Todd Phillips

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

Mercedes McCambridge

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

James F. Cooper

Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Friedrich August von Hayek

In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

Nick Flynn

Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.

John Wooden

You have not taught until they have learned.

Peter Drucker

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Garry Kasparov

Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. Dictators don't ask "Why?" before they seize even more power. They ask: "Why not?"