Maimonides Quotes

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.