Confucius Quotes

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

Confucius

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• Wisdom
• Courage
• Families

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• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Wine
  • White

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • California

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Love
  • Book
  • Night

• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Character
  • Know
  • System

• I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

  

  Carly Craig
  • She
  • Character
  • Song

• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  

  Mark E. Hyman
  • Good
  • Positive

• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  

  Confucius
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Wisdom