Confucius Quotes

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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Armies are not only for offensives.
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The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.
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When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'
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We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?