
“Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 53
Source: HR from the Outside In, 2012, p. 31
“Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 53
“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”
“Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught.”
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“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 21
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
“The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.”
Commenting on Kenley Jansen's first pitching appearance in the MLB on July 24, 2010
Source: On the strength of a community in “’I Can Write My Shadow’: Alexis Cheung Interviews Maxine Hong Kingston” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-write-shadow-alexis-cheung-interviews-maxine-hong-kingston/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2016 Dec 22)
Source: Systems Design of Education (1991), p. 110
Biden officially running for president, MSNBC.com, January 31, 2007, 2007-02-01 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16901147/,
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