Confucius Quotes
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
Quotes to Explore
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.
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The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
