„There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.“
Fuente: The Naming
Alison Croggon3
1962Citas similares
„3908. Poverty is not a Shame; but the being asham'd of it, is.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 a.C.
Fuente: The Analects, Other chapters
„The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?“
— Gilles Deleuze French philosopher 1925 - 1995
„Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.“
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Fuente: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Fuente: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
„I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.“
— Dick Gregory American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur 1932 - 2017
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
„To illude: one of the most shameful behaviors that can belong to the human being.“
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
Original: (it) Illudere: uno dei comportamenti più vergognosi che possano appartenere all'essere umano.
Fuente: prevale.net
„Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.“
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
— Johannes Kepler German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer 1571 - 1630
As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28
„There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.“
— Russell Brand British comedian, actor, and author 1975
Russell Brand - Oxford
„Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.“
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English politician 1633 - 1695
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
— Andrey Voznesensky Soviet poet 1933 - 2010
Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.
„Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.“
— Stephen King American author 1947
Fuente: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
„To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.“
— Kanō Jigorō Japanese educator and judoka 1860 - 1938
This is quoted in several published books as a Japanese proverb, without any mention of Jigoro Kano as author.
Misattributed
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
Speech in http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb ("Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.")
2000s, 2002
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 a.C.
Fuente: The Doctrine of the Mean
