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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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.
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My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.
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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?