“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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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
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/
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My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Wer anders lehret, denn ich hierinn gelehret hab, oder mich darinn verdammt, der verdamt Gott, und muß ein Kind der Höllen bleiben. <br class="br">Deutsche Antwort Luthers auf König Heinrichs von England Buch. German answer of Martin Luther to the Book of King Henry of England, 1522. <br class="br">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