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I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well


Thomas Henry Huxley

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JOHN RUSKIN My parents taught me well,they spanked me every once in awhile.
MONK FROST Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
PATRICK WHITE Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
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JUDY JOHNSON They know the basics, and they do what is taught to them, and they do it well.
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KARL PEARSON If you are willing to learn, you can be taught. If you are unwilling to learn, you can't be taught.
LORRIN L. LEE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
JOHN MCENROE Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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JUNOT DíAZ Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
JOHN MILTON Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.
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HARRISH SAIRAMAN Some things can't be taught; they can only be discovered.
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JOHN CATSIMATIDIS To engage what was taught is to understand it
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DAVE DEBRONKART It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.
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BORIS PASTERNAK Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
J.M. BARRIE Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
LEIGH BARDUGO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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IYANLA VANZANT Our church taught us not to be prejudiced.
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ALLY SHEEDY If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
RUDYARD KIPLING It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
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MARIANA FULGER We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable
ILYAS KASSAM Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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ROBERT STERNBERG Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.
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AMBER HURDLE Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is w...
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CHARLIE SHEEN It is better to be completely ignorant than to be ill taught.
VIKRANT PARSAI Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
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LOUISE DOUGHTY Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
AL SECKEL If the values of diligence is not been taught in our society, that is encouraging fraud.
SUNDAY ADELAJA So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerab...
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THOMAS TRYON I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
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KYLE MYRICK For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will un...
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THOMAS HUXLEY My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harm...
THOMAS HUXLEY Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
THOMAS HUXLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode...
THOMAS HUXLEY The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il...
THOMAS HUXLEY Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
THOMAS HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HUXLEY History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HUXLEY If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin...
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY