Confucius Quotes

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Loved
  • Gentleman

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Experience

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Gentleman

• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Taken

• My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Man
  • Gentleman

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • Gentleman

• The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Experience
  • Gentleman

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • Time
  • Gentleman

• What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Mind
  • May
  • Gentleman

• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Master
  • Repose
  • Erudite

• Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Gentleman

• It wept by the waters of Babylon, And when all men were a loss, It screeched in writhing agony, And it hung bleeding from the Cross. It died in Rome by lion and sword, And in defiant cruel array, When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’ Along the Appian Way.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • Men
  • Lion

• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Obligation
  • Convinced
  • Cooperation

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands