Quotes About Learning

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

To me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is definitely a landmark. It has taught me so much.

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really had an aptitude for sewing - my mother taught me. I even learned to embroider when I was very young and I made the most fantastic dresses for my dolls. So I thought I could be a designer.