Confucius Quotes

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

• Cautious
• Seldom
• Err

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• The love received is the love that is saved.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Love
  • Saved
  • Received

• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • You
  • Coward
  • Cautious

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nice

• 'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Growing up, I never felt like I was very pretty, because I didn't look like anyone else, and the boys weren't lining up to get with me. I internalized that and thought there was something wrong with me.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Depression

• The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

  

  Ajay Naidu
  • Work
  • Important
  • Free

• I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

  

  Dyan Cannon

• It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

  

  Joe Garagiola

• I mean, for me, the reason I ride my bike and race is because I love doing it, not because I'm seeking recognition for it.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Bike

• I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

  

  David Slade
  • Believe

• I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.

  

  Ann McKee

• If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Guy
  • Lost

• The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

  

  Mark Twain
  • Know
  • Worked
  • Seldom

• Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy resources she wins the greater meed of hope.

  

  Democritus
  • She
  • Nature
  • Hope

• The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Life
  • Game
  • Perspective

• It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Search
  • Manner
  • Cautious

• Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

  

  Confucius
  • Wrong
  • Seldom
  • Contains

• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Power
  • Become
  • Far

• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Working
  • Knowing
  • Lawyers

• Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

  

  Estelle
  • Trouble
  • Find You

• The cautious seldom err.

  

  Confucius
  • Cautious
  • Seldom
  • Err