Confucius 孔子
5th century BC · Lu, Spring and Autumn China
"To hear something on the road and repeat it on the path is to throw virtue away."
子曰：「道聽而塗說，德之棄也。」Analects, book 17 (Yang Huo)
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Henry David Thoreau
1854 · Massachusetts, USA
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Walden, "Economy"
Mencius 孟子
4th century BC · Zou, Warring States China
"The trouble with people is that they love to be teachers of others."
人之患在好爲人師。Mencius, Li Lou I
Confucius 孔子
5th century BC · Lu, Spring and Autumn China
"When three of us walk together, there is sure to be a teacher for me among them. I pick out what is good in them and follow it, and what is not good I correct in myself."
子曰：「三人行，必有我師焉。擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。」Analects, book 7 (Shu Er)
Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca
c. AD 63 · Roman Empire
People learn while they teach.
homines dum docent discunt.Letters to Lucilius 7
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