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We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.
Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency.
My dad always taught me to let the clubs talk. So if people don't know who I am, I guess I'm just not playing well enough.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.
For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.
The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.
My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out.
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.
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
In college, they taught us to think of a bad smell or simulate a bad taste to start crying. I just think of my ex-boyfriend!
My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.
I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.
My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that`s what I`ve been doing.
I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.
I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.
I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .