Taught Quotes

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
― Immanuel Kant

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“They taught you a lot of things, your family,' I say. The sleight of hand, the wall climbing, the swordsmanship.

'Not to die,' he says. 'That's what they attempted to teach me, anyway. Not to die.'

Considering how often he throws himself directly into the path of danger, I do not think they taught him well enough.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Everyone in my life taught me to swim in the ocean of myself.”
― Sara Wolf, Send Me Their Souls

“.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Forgive those who wronged you, but don’t forget the lessons they taught you.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“I like to look at people's hands. The lines drawn, the color of their skin. All beautifully different. Not one is raised or taught the same.”
― Nitya Prakash

“...he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.”
― Graham Greene, Author's Choice: Four Novels by Graham Greene

“You have much to learn, Aria. You just have to overcome your fear of being taught.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Make Me Burn

“President Trump taught me that lying to the world is a normal aspect of life in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump has taught the world everything there is to know about blatantly lying.”
― Steven Magee

“God knew that not all lessons are taught in the classroom. Hence, He allows life to teach us some extraordinary lessons.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“The greatest lessons in life are not the one's that were only taught but it's the one's that were also learned.”
― Hopal Green

“The greatest lessons in life are not the ones that were only taught but it's the ones that were also learned.”
― Hopal Green

“Rihanna taught me how to 3-step, and now my skin is dancing too”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“I wish that financial literacy was taught when I attended high school, not so long ago”
― Charmaine J Forde

“One of my favorite things about teaching is being there to witness someone become what they JUST told you they weren’t.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“The most important influence in all our lives is love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult.”
― Ron Baratono

“I am self taught in how to control potentially dangerous encounters with police officers and how to deescalate the situation by calling 911.”
― Steven Magee

“People taught me to fail, and God taught me to succeed and overcome the failures.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The Christmas 2022 airline disaster taught us to always book the biggest airline carrier if the prices are similar.”
― Steven Magee

“Numerous toxic encounters with police officers have taught me to dislike and be suspicious of the police.”
― Steven Magee

“You can blindly accept the current theory as taught, or you can question it and develop a better theory.”
― Steven Magee

“The thing I remember about my company management course was how to get the workplace productivity up. I have no recollection of being taught how to keep the workers happy.”
― Steven Magee

“In life, everything can't be studied, certain things can only be taught (feelings).”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar