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Quote of Pythagoras - Never do anything which you do...


Biography - Pythagoras:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -580 - Died: -495
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.


Note 

Note



Attributed to Pythagoras - The golden verses of Pythagoras is an apocryphal writing.




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Ne fais rien sans connaissance de cause et apprends ce qu'il faut savoir. Telle est la règle pour vivre le plus agréablement.

German
Tue nichts, wovon du nichts verstehst, doch lasse dich belehren, soviel als nötig; so wirst du das angenehmste Leben verbringen.




See also 

See also...



Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.











Quotes

Pythagoras also said...


There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.





Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.





Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.





As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.





It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.





As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.












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