Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

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.

Nelson Mandela

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

Mario Puzo

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

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.

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.

Kofi Annan

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Kobe Bryant

He taught me how to play the game. He's the coach, I'm the player, ... We don't think we're going to have any problems.

Wallace Stegner

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Zaha Hadid

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Zaha Hadid

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

Walter Scott

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Samuel Johnson

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

W. Somerset Maugham

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

Galileo Galilei

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.

Norm Negus

When he came to me wanting to do something in astronomy, I got excited. Astronomy is my first love in science. But he wanted to buy a big telescope which we couldn't afford.

Scott Moeller

Astronomy has always been a fascination of mine.

Robert Nemiroff

There's a wow factor here. I usually know within a second or two of seeing a picture whether its a sure thing for Astronomy Picture of the Day because I just say wow, what is going on there.

Edwin Powell Hubble

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomy is written for astronomers

John Taylor

I majored in physics at IU. But I took a whole lot of astronomy classes. I thought it would be great to have a solar telescope ... be able to see things during the day with the students.

Eileen collins

Houston, we have a good deploy. Chandra is ready to open the eyes of X-ray astronomy to the world.

J. August Richards

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.