Top 699 Taught Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Taught Quotes from famous people such as Bill Cosby, Louise L. Hay, River Phoenix, Helen McCrory, Lyoto Machida, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise L. Hay
We are taught to consume. And that’s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it’s just a mind set, that it’s just an addiction, then we wouldn’t be out there stepping on people’s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
Helen McCrory
My dad taught me; Mr. Steven Seagal taught me, also.
Lyoto Machida
My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
Kim Wilde
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Richard Wilbur
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
Thierry Henry
I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
Mike Lee
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
Thomas Moore
I’m very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don’t become too muscular.
Donna Dixon
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work – don’t depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
I’ve had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I’ve had, I’m happy that I’ve had them because it’s taught me to appreciate all the ups.
Patti LaBelle
When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.
Kylie Minogue
North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don’t want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.
Michael Moore
My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
Padmasree Warrior
My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can’t beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.
Chad le Clos
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O’Keeffe
We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they’re nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.
Indya Moore
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
Jack Dangermond
My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.
Amanda Borden
As an actor, the first thing you’re taught is, ‘Don’t look into the camera; ignore it.’
Yael Grobglas
Boxing has taught me to be disciplined, to be respectful to those around me. I am able to travel the world, meet a lot of people, and make new friends.
Joseph Parker
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan
I know I’m not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I’ve done my job.
Sandra Brown
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
The way children are taught football doesn’t encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Gary Lineker
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We made ‘Baahubali’ with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.
Prabhas
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
Chris Fussell
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magno

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on ‘Steel Magnolias,’ and a standby painter on ‘Pelican Brief’ taught me to knit. I’m pretty good at it now!
Julia Roberts
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
Thiago Silva
My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
Ally Sheedy
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
Walter Mosley
My whole life in the streets, I was taught not to answer questions and just keep my mouth shut.
Giggs
Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
Bill Nunn
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson
I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden.
Andrew Young
While I respect all genders, I do not wish to acknowledge homosexuals as I have been taught that God created man and woman with specific characteristics and duties.
Choi Si-won
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.
Wendell Pierce
My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people’s opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Ruben Studdard
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we’re able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
Atom Egoyan
Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
Lemmy
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Pete Rose
I think the best of us comes when we are working together collectively. And it doesn’t mean that we can’t disagree. We’ve got to learn, as Dad taught us, to disagree without being disagreeable.
Martin Luther King III
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
Arnold Palmer
Study how to write smart contracts, which is the basic unit of programming a blockchain for business purposes. It is the equivalent of being taught HTML and Java during the early Internet days. And master how to create assets or tokenize existing ones on a blockchain.
William Mougayar
We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Robert Caro
When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
Lois Frankel
‘Superstar’ Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching.
Bret Hart