(329 quotes found)
“Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.”
John McEnroe
“She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]”
Michael Silverblatt
“In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.”
Dennis Prager
“Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice”
L. Estrange
“I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.”
James Brown
“We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty”
Daniel Webster
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
Will Cuppy
“Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can”
Mark Twain
