Confucius Quotes

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

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• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

  

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• I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

  

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• I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

  

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  

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• As long as he's not getting in trouble, let him go out and have fun.

  

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• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

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• I love to watch my movies. You have no idea...I would watch my movies like over a hundred times.

  

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• Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

  

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• As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

  

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• There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

  

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• You are what you love, not who loves you.

  

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• Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

  

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• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

  

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• People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

  

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• A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

  

  Confucius
  • Comfort
  • Loves
  • Scholar