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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education, Time, Nothing

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

Change, School, Yourself

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Learn, Ready, Although

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Learn, Ready, Although

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill

Forget, Against, Until

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Life, Place, Choice

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Stand, Protect

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen

Success, Failure, Try

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Science, Madness, Sublimity

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Telling

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Sure, Ourselves

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Telling

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar

Good, Best, Successful

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

History, Everything, Sun

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Keep, Divorce, House

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Good, Best, Experience

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Denis Leary

End, Racism, Son

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen

Leadership, Learned, Cannot

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

Parenting, Children, Learned

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fire, Reason, Admire

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Whitney Houston

Truth, Mother, Fight

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma Bombeck

Body, Wants, Eat

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina

Power, Strength, Courage

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Keep, Talk

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama

Life, Women, Strength

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
Chris Brown

Mother, Treat, Lady

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Great, Experience, Bitter

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