The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
When we have learned something, there's this thing called belief perseverance. Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Dancing is like riding a bike.
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
You have to be taught to hate.
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
I don't leave things like recovery to chance! I have learned from the best, after all - my father and uncle!
Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. It's just common sense that I learned the hard way - I keep touching the fire. I'll touch it even though you told me it's hot, even though it's burned me before.
Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
