Taught Quotes

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

~ Criss Jami

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

~ Criss Jami

Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future….

~ James A. Murphy

School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy.

~ Steven Magee

To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.

~ Richie Norton

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

~ Criss Jami

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

~ Conn Iggulden

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

~ Sunday Adelaja

.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others; but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.

~ Mitch Albom

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.

~ Christina Engela

Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

~ Amy Harmon

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

19,The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that the society was taught to respect all workers.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

~ Steven Magee

Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them.

~ Chioma Nkachukwu

It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don’t want to be, having trod a path I didn’t want to take.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

~ Peter V. Brett

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

~ Steven Magee

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechts’ famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht’s Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter – Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock.

~ Christina Engela

BIGGER THE THOUGHT,DIFFICULT TO CAUGHT,TO SURVIVE IT TAUGHT,WITH HOPE WE FOUGHT,SUCCESS WILL BE BROUGHT.

~ Merlin8Thomas

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

~ Immanuel Kant

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

~ Meghan Blistinsky

Of all the lessons my parents taught me,GIVING was the best

~ Charmaine J. Forde

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act normal. I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

~ John Elder Robison

If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.

~ Bethany Brookbank

The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult.

~ Ron Baratono

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

~ Samantha Fox

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

~ Rita Ora

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

~ Luc De Clapiers

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

~ Harold S. Geneen