User:Mokurai/Quotes: Difference between revisions
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* Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. | * Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. | ||
:Usually attributed, incorrectly, to Heraclitus (c. 535–c. 475 BCE) | |||
: | * I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. | ||
:Attributed to Socrates (c. 469 BCE–399 BCE), but no source is provided. | |||
* Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. | * Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. | ||
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* A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. | * A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. | ||
:Allegedly a Greek proverb, but no source is provided. | :Allegedly a Greek proverb, but no source is provided. | ||
* Everything should be made as simple as possible, but ''no simpler''. | |||
:Attributed to Albert Einstein (1879–1955), but no source is provided. | |||
==Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)== | ==Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)== | ||