Protagoras quote: "You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught."

To map out a course of action & follow it to the end, requires courage conviction & confidence. With...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU

The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be...
COCO CHANEL

Courage is most important virtue, one is blessed with. It is the courage which makes you stand alone...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...
AYN RAND

If you are willing to learn, you can be taught. If you are unwilling to learn, you can't be taught.
LORRIN L. LEE

Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving i...
ANONYMOUS

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo...
C. JOYBELL C.

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not...
VOLTAIRE

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI

If you haven't learned by now that you cant trust everybody, i think its safe to say that you are th...
BRIELL ADAMS

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generat...
WARREN EYSTER

Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE

We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso...
ANGIE KARAN

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ...
EUGENE EDWARDS

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the ...
EMMA WATSON

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question...
THABO MBEKI

I was taught at an early age to be humble, ... All my family taught me that. You can't forget where ...
BRYSON SUMLIN

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN

Getting a little bit of knowledge in advance on the kinds of things that are expected in a particula...
KATHY BORRUS

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad,...
WADE BOGGS

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
ARISTOTLE

Even if you said something, there would still be things untold, and there were things that would bre...
WATARU WATARI

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people...
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people i...
SCOTT ADAMS

Coach Jones taught me a lot along the way. And of all the things he taught me, the one thing that st...
COREY PARISH

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfoli...
ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
ROBBIE COLTRANE

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEY

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY

The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS...

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon...
ZACHARY TAYLOR

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ...
C. JOYBELL C.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC)

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!
GREG CURTIS

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
DIOGENES

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
DANTE ALIGHIERI

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

I talked to Alecia only a couple of days prior to the accident. The smile that everyone has been tal...
BRIAN WOODS

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. ...
ROBERT DUVALL

It taught me that . . . there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no coura...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue,
ORSON SCOTT CARD

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that...
JOHN MILTON

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pup...
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the ch...
AMBER HEARD

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when t...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you a...
BRYANT H. MCGILL

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you a...
BRYANT MCGILL

Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to under...
EMILE DURKHEIM

What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA

The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by...
TRUTH DEVOUR

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PéRIGORD

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY GOLDWATER

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY GOLDWATER

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER

Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darknes...
PATRICK OVERTON

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your l...
ROBIN HOBB

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mund...
GIRDHAR JOSHI

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL

Courage is most important virtue, one is blessed with. It is the courage which makes you stand alone...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’...
CASSANDRA CLARE

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
KURT VONNEGUT

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and ...
ARTHUR GANSON

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You ca...
SHANNON L. ALDER

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you...
PEMA CHODRON

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG

You are all I think about. You know that right? You haunt my mind, but in a good way. You are absolu...
MARY PITTMAN

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE

You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.

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Protagoras

You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.

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