A Quote by Robin Hobb

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
American - Writer
Born: March 5, 1952

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

James Frey

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Anna Deavere Smith

Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.

Geraldine Ferraro

You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Benjamin Barber

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Frederick Lenz

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Abraham Maslow

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Criss Jami

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Terry McMillan

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

Andrew Sullivan

David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'

Myron Tribus

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Alexander Smith

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

Susan Sontag

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