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"Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught."
"As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing."
"I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now."
"The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most."
"Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street."
"I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night."
"I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -"
"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."
"We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own."
"I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?"
"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
"Who taught you to hate yourself?"
"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."
"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one."
"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
"I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people."
"Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream."
"All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old."
". . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . ."