Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

Liya Kebede

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

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.

John Wooden

You have not taught until they have learned.

Neil Gaiman

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

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.

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.

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.

J. I. Packer

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

David Foster

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

What she taught you was, if you didn't want to know an answer, don't ask,

William Cowper

With outstretched hoe I slew him at the door, / And taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE.

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.

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?"

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

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.

Martin Luther

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

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Thomas Aquinas

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

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.