You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

"Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Yo no puedo enseñarle nada a nadie, tan sólo puedo incitarle a pensar

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it — you can't teach it.

Other people can help you, but if you're not trying to understand yourself, nobody else can do it for you.

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.