In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.
Much learning does not teach sense.
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.
Dear God, teach me to be careless.
I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other.
Experience by itself teaches nothing.
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
When you teach, you learn.
Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Method will teach you to win time.
You can only learn when you teach.