"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Maciver, Robert M. | Men and Women | 4 bookmarks

"The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."

Ammianus, Marcellinus | Language | 3 bookmarks

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates | Teachers and Teaching | 5 bookmarks

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

Socrates | Politicians and Politics | 3 bookmarks

"How many are the things I can do without!"

Socrates | Possessions | 2 bookmarks

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates | Listening | 3 bookmarks

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates | Knowledge | 3 bookmarks

"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

Socrates | Government | 1 bookmarks

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

Socrates | Friends and Friendship | 6 bookmarks

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates | Feminism | 6 bookmarks