“The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.”

— Vin Scully

Commenting on Kenley Jansen's first pitching appearance in the MLB on July 24, 2010

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American sports broadcaster 1927

Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman

Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.

“Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 53

“Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Context: Libraries … will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns.

“They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: Mathematics, being very different from the natural languages, has its corresponding patterns of thought. Learning these patterns is much more important than any particular result... They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.

“Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.”

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853–1919) painter from Hungary

The Authority

“The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 955
Context: The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.