“ The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ”
- Henry Bolingbroke- Copy
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“ It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. ”
- Ed Parker- Copy
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“ Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I keep six honest serving-men ; Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ”
- Frank Tibolt- Copy
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“ But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead dead parent, for examplean be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. ”
- Jacques Derrida- Copy
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“ The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ”
- John Lubbock- Copy
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“ I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. ”
- Ellen DeGeneres- Copy
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“ Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. ”
- Alanis Morissette- Copy
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“ Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. ”
- Baba Dioum- Copy
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“ In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. ”
- Ann Landers- Copy
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