Confucius Quotes

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Win

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Horse

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • You
  • Feeling

• Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Violence
  • Greatest

• Terror cannot be finished by one war.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Terror
  • Finished

• When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Taken
  • Dance

• Everyday is another chance to get things right.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Things
  • Chance
  • Right

• I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • Family
  • Winning

• The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People

• The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Body

• Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Home

• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

  

  Eve Best
  • Love
  • Mountains
  • Jam

• Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Achieve

• The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

  

  Confucius
  • Mountains
  • Wise Man
  • Rests