“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.”
(February 19, 2010) http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2010/02/tiger_woods_buddhism_teaches_about_cravings_and_other_press_conference_confessions_1.html?hpid=sec-religion and the video on this page: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6223495n Note: This quote was widely reported incorrectly ("creating of things") by the Associated Press, and in the text of the CBS page with the embedded video.
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“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Part 4, No. 1. "Transiency"
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
There is no evidence that Franklin said this. Scholars believe the saying comes from the Xunzi.
Additional information may be read at the following websites:
http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/word-badger/2013/mar/24/whose-quote-really/
Misattributed
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (iii) The "Modern" Mind
“In teaching me the way to live
It taught me how to die.”
My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Wer anders lehret, denn ich hierinn gelehret hab, oder mich darinn verdammt, der verdamt Gott, und muß ein Kind der Höllen bleiben.
Deutsche Antwort Luthers auf König Heinrichs von England Buch. German answer of Martin Luther to the Book of King Henry of England, 1522.
Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke, Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, 1833, vol. 28, p. 347. http://books.google.com/books?id=838KAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA347&dq=%22Wer+Anders+lehret,+denn+ich+%22&hl=en&ei=loo_TMbkOYL88AbH-rCGCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Wer%20Anders%20lehret%2C%20denn%20ich%20%22&f=false