#taught

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#applied #distinctly #mainly #mathematical #mathematics

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

#always #because #blame #brothers #change

The truth is lived, not taught. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#taught #truth #truth is

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #beautiful #because #confront #death

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. ↗

— Robert Huber

#chemistry #could #easily #follow #get

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have. ↗

— Janis Ian

#any #artists #be humble #especially #even

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. ↗

— Bil Keane

#cartoonists #day #doing #draw #homework

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#broadway #chicago #dance #end #every

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#conceive #grandfather #i #mind #reality

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#between #children #difference #handing #over