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I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
I do not believe that God has
imposed suffering upon anyone
to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
- Ernest Holmes
Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have;
that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
- Ernest Holmes
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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