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I cannot teach anybody anything.
by Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Related topics: Wisdom

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates PHOTO

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) PHOTO

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates PHOTO

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Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

 

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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 way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
- 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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates

All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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

False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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

Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

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 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 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

We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton

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

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha

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

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

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

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)

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

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

Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain

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

I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth,
and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts,
the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
- Jimmy Carter


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