Confucius Quotes

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

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• There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

  

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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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• The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

  

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• You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

  

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• Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.

  

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• With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

  

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• I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

  

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

  

  Confucius
  • Comfort
  • Loves
  • Scholar