I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Interpretation
One should share what they have learned but maintain a critical perspective on the information received.
This quote from Herodotus highlights the importance of discernment in our communication. While it is crucial to share knowledge and experiences as we learn them, it is equally important to approach information with skepticism and an analytical mindset. Blind acceptance can lead to misinformation, so one should evaluate the credibility of what is conveyed before integrating it into their understanding.
In practice
During a history lecture, discussing the importance of evaluating sources.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.
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