Untaught

But Eleanor would fain believe that the lie which Solomon discovered to be "continually on the lips of the untaught" is not on the lips of those who "'know better" at all. ❋ Unknown (1872)

As long as we accept that racism isn't inherent, but that it is something that is taught, then we must acknowledge that it can be 'untaught'. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Lautner says that Rembrandt was "untaught," and Donnelly said the same of Shakespeare, and each critic gives this as a reason why the man could not have done a sublime performance. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him, and was acquainted with their practical uses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I copy part of a letter from the Duke of Grafton, which I received by this post: — 'I have to thank you for the acquaintance of a real untaught genius, starting from our neighbourhood; which, together with the account you give of his moral character, makes me very desirous of being of service to him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There would be no sense of peoplehood, none of the untaught affections of those who are part of an organic social unit that shares the same destiny. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. ❋ Unknown (2009)

About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in the army, where next week you may find yourself in a vicious firefight with a load of Taleban wackos bent on both martyrdom and the tender attentions of the usual 72 virgins (or is it 73 this week?), curtailing training by a week may mean that something which might save the life of a young Private soldier in the field goes untaught. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I would be a woman of learning instead of an untaught girl, as stupid as any ordinary girl. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

Humans have a natural, untaught understanding of the apartness of their bodies, and they don ' t like it when their space is violated. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2010)

To the untaught mind, my statement that alcohol and water interpenetrate on the molecular level might be taken on faith, but not in any other way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"She's a stranger, and plainly untaught in the Path." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But still, to the uninitiated, to the untaught, this is an extremely long time and they ` re finally happy to see something happening on it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most of his books are, indeed, almost as striking to the untaught, general reader, as theyare to the trained biologist himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning -- yet long untaught ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the clergy closes its eyes to widespread sin-- contraception, divorce, fornication, sodomy, adultery (not to mention heresy and various other sins against the faith), and allows it to pass uncommented, and leaves the people untaught, for fear that it might upset them and make the Church look bad (i.e. "fundamentalist") that's not an orthodox clergy. ❋ Suzanne (2009)

Theodotus of Ancyra terms her a virgin innocent, without spot, void of culpability, holy in body and in soul, a lily springing among thorns, untaught the ills of Eve, nor was there any communion in her of light with darkness, and, when not yet born, she was consecrated to God Orat. in S. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)