Chinese Proverb 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

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.

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.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

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.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

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.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

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.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Old foxes want no tutors.

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.

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