“You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.”

— Democritus

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires." by Democritus?

Democritus 81

Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of t…

Related quotes

“Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

06-Mar-2007, Hull City OWS
It's tough maintaining discipline with all this hat-throwing going on.

“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“There live a great man named Joe
who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
While his rival would taunt and tease
Joe silently bore the stings.
And then fought like gladiator in the ring.”

Muhammad Ali book The Soul of a Butterfly

"The Silent Warrior", dedicated to Joe Frazier and his family, p. 112
The Soul of a Butterfly (2004)

“A man might say, "The things that are in the world are what God has made…. Why should I not love what God has made?"…Suppose, my brethren, a man should make for his betrothed a ring, and she should prefer the ring given her to the betrothed who made it for her, would not her heart be convicted of infidelity?… God has given you all these things: therefore, love him who made them.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

Second Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), pp. 275-276
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)

“Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.”

Jami (1414–1492) Persian poet

An argosy of fables, p. 243
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami

“The deed of dying transcends class and breeding. It is every man’s patent of nobility, his summons from the king, his knightly adventure, the greatest deed of his life. And how he acquits himself in that lonely and perilous enterprise is his true measure as a man.”

Robert Sheckley book Immortality, Inc.

Source: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 15 (p. 71)

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

John James Audubon (1785–1851) American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter

Sometimes attributed to Audubon in recent years, there are no occurrences of this statement that have been located prior to 1997, and it is probably derived from the remarks of Wendell Berry:
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until "retirement," but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of their place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains them, and which they know they can never compass with their understanding or desire.
The Unforeseen Wilderness : An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (1971), p. 33
Misattributed

“For you alone I ride the ring,
For you I wear the blue;
For you alone I strive to sing,
O tell me how to woo!”

Robert Cunninghame-Grahame of Gartmore (1735–1797) British politician, died 1797

If Doughty Deeds ("If daughty deeds my lady pleases."), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1939)

“There is only one man who gets his own way—he who can get it single-handed; therefore freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. This is my fundamental maxim. Apply it to childhood, and all the rules of education spring from it. Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs. This is why his desires increase in proportion to his weakness; and this is why the child is weaker than the man. If a man is strong and a child is weak it is not because the strength of the one is absolutely greater than the strength of the other, but because the one can naturally provide for himself and the other cannot. Thus the man will have more desires and the child more caprices, a word which means, I take it, desires which are not true needs, desires which can only be satisfied with the help of others.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Emile, or On Education

Emile, or On Education (1762), Book II

“You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Democritus 81

Related quotes

Related topics