Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. -Sir Joshua Reynolds

 

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Sir Joshua Reynolds quotes in our collection. Sir Joshua Reynolds is known for saying 'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.' as well as some of the following quotes.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
323

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
214
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. -Sir Joshua Reynolds
211

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
193

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
180
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. -Sir Joshua Reynolds
178

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
172