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I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend 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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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 only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 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
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
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 want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
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
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 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
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
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
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.
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
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)
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