Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.
I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.
If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.
I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!
Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.