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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• Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Democracy

  "Quote for the Day II". The year 1979 quote, www.theatlantic.com. January 09, 2007.

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• The Savior taught us to love not only our friends but also those who disagree with us- and even those who repudiate us.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Taught, Savior, Disagree

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• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Ambition, Eye, Pride

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Class, Long, Pockets

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 47, 1987.

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• My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

  Toby Keith

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

  Franz Liszt

  Father, Air, Worry

  Franz Liszt, Marie Sayn-Wittgenstein Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (Prinzessin zu) (1953). “The letters of Franz Liszt to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein”

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• My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Rights, Government, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

  Donald Trump

  Hacking, Vulnerable, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Powerful, Military

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

  Nadia Bolz-Weber

  Hurt, Jesus, Forgiving

  "Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint". Book by Nadia Bolz-Weber, 2013.

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• Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

  Waziyatawin

  Lying, Believe, Technology

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• Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

  George Pattison

  Thinking, Years, Progress

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

  Paris Hilton

  Humble, Thinking, Mcdonalds

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

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• Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Kings, Vegetarian

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Errors, Security Systems

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• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Equality, Should Have, People

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• Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

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• Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

  Max Delbruck

  Tree, Details, May

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• I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Independence

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• My mom would never let us quit. She always taught us the importance of sticking with it, even when times are tough. We didn't just hear her, we watched her. I know what to do because she led the way. She showed us that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish the world. No matter where you're from and what you're up against.

  Theo Ratliff

  Softball, Sports, Mom

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• And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.

  Charles Nicolle

  Teaching, Heart, Knowledge

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