Taught Us Quotes

• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  E. O. Wilson

  Passion, Desire, Ifs

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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• History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Sacrifice, Men, Bravery

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Intelligence, Madness

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, California, Presidential

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Writing, Monkeys, How To Love

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• He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

  John Grogan

  Art, Fall, Giving

  John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, School, Fire

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

  Alice Miller

  Struggle, Acceptance, Unique

  "The Drama of the Gifted Child". Book by Alice Miller, 1979.

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• - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

  Lois Lowry

  Technology, Brain, Computer

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

  Anais Nin

  Sacrifice, Men, Other Worlds

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• Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Morning, Sleep, Divorce

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Donny Osmond

  Father, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

  Joyce Meyer

  Lifestyle Choices, Excuse, Misuse

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• If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

  Bono

  Islands, Sea, Despair

  "The lobbyist rock star", www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

  Tony Campolo

  Parent, Lines, Good Person

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

  Black Elk

  Girl, Warrior, Boys

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ambition, Character, Bed

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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• Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Stars, Kings, Drama

  "THE AVENGERS Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Eloquent Editorial in Defense of Superhero Movies" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Agency, Way, Left

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Racism

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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Opportunity, Games

  "Olympics: Now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  Kesha

  Taught, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Fighting, Gun

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• Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

  George S. Clason

  Two, Training, Kind

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.19, Lulu.com

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