Confucius Quotes

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

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• When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Teach
  • Salesman

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
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• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Guilty

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Responsibility
  • See
  • Teach

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Teach

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learn
  • See
  • Pleasures

• If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Person

• I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Me
  • Teach
  • Divorce

• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Detail

• Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Never
  • Guilty

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Believe
  • Simple
  • Guilty

• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writing
  • Advice
  • Teach

• Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Experience
  • Teach

• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  

  Confucius
  • Teach
  • Guilty
  • Duties