T Quotes
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“Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms
“Teach French and unteach sincerity.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Teach girls to be aggressive? Well, yes. I return again to a major symptom of girls’ loss of self-esteem: idealized, or conflict-free, relationships. If we can guide girls into comfort with “messy” feelings such as jealousy, competition, and anger, they will be less likely to take them out of their relationships with others. They will feel free to confess strong feelings, and they will stay in touch with themselves. They will be less likely to repress the feelings that over time simmer into rageful acts of cruelty.”
Source: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
“Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.”
“Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Because difference is the reality of our world. And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world.
She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. Teach her that we do not know – we cannot know – everything about life. Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that.
Teach her never to universalise her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people.
This is the only necessary form of humility: the realisation that difference is normal.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Teach her that saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.”
“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4
“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...) you don’t realise how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary. (...) Thanks to processes we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes. Keep pressing home on him the ordinariness of things. (...) But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is ‘the results of modern investigation’. Do remember you are there to fuddle him.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Teach him to deny himself.”
“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.”
“Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!”
“Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said that this instance is remote or extreme. But, again, it is exactly true of the men in the streets around us. It is true that the negro slave, being a debased barbarian, will probably have either a human affection of loyalty, or a human affection for liberty. But the man we see every day--the worker in Mr. Gradgrind's factory, the little clerk in Mr. Gradgrind's office--he is too mentally worried to believe in freedom.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”
Source: Reflections
“Teach hope to all, despair to none.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.”
“Teach like your hair's on fire!”
Source: Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
“Teach love, for that is what you are.”
“Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.”
“Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man? What's going on? Why don't people teach us about getting together?”
“Teach me how to love you so good
our hearts will be beating
thunderously
against our ribcages
straining to get out.
For so long I have only known
how to hurt.
There are scars on my body like
constellations.
The one on my hip was from when I was six
and I learned my parents were
the Titanic and the iceberg.
My wrist has a faint bruise
reminding me of when I gave myself
to a boy who crashed and burned
and took me down with him.
Heartbreak sounds a lot like
a slamming door.
Show me it doesn’t have to be this way,
I want to be proven wrong.
Teach me how to love right.”
“Teach me how to trust you enough so i
can count every wound and every scar.
Kiss each one of them and tell me i'm
still your star.
Show me that no matter how dull this life makes me, no matter
how much darkness surround me,
I am still bright enough to light your
heart. I know i can heal on my own but
what if i no longer want to. I know i
can keep everything to myself, but
maybe i never learnt to.
that's just it, maybe i wasn't built
this way. I just need a second opinion,
i need a second mind, i need a second
heart, i just need a second hand that
can help me let go of everything.
i'm bored of building walls and i just
need to break some. But here lies the
issue, when i break, i break down, it's
not a “some” ,it’s everything.and so
far wasn't so good I break them down
only to find that they were built over
a cleft and then i'm left barely
hanging by a thread. So listen, i just
like calling them battle wounds, i like
the idea of sworn secrecy to my scars,
call them by their names and i just
might let you through the doors
Teach me how to love by taking my walls
as your new home, you are welcome
inside and the cleft makes a hell of a
view, it just needs two to look at, and
maybe one day i will say it just needed
You.”
“Teach me love and I will impress you by getting the highest marks.”
“Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through my tears that I have seen rainbows.”
“Teach me the ways of the secular flesh.”
“Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.”
“Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.”
“Teach me to feel another’s woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
(from The Universal Prayer)”
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
“Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.”
Source: Scenes from scripture: with other poems
“Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.”
“Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.”
Source: Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy
“Teach me to sing and recite,
To whistle and jingle and strum.
Teach me to color and paint,
To sculpt and weave and create.
Teach me to sway and dance,
To tap and leap and twirl.
Teach me to laugh and giggle,
To tickle and play and pretend.
Teach me that life is beautiful.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.”
“Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.”
Source: A Path Through Suffering
“Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.”
“Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee”
“Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.”
“Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own”
“Teach my ears the way to ignore
names that I’m called. May they only twitch
to the distant shake of a boxful of biscuits,
the clink of a fork on a china dish.”
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
“Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.”
“Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.”
Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
“Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.”