"Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!"
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"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it."
"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
"Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God."
"Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't"."
"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry."
"I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while."
"We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it."
"Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour."
"Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside."
"Good values are easier caught than taught."
"[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor."
"Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature."
"It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri."
"The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed."
"There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem."
"I was taught that pain is bad."
"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self."
"My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?"
"There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour."