Confucius Quotes

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Perfect
  • Player
  • Exist

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Family
  • Home
  • Want

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Darkness

• Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Enjoy
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Opinion
  • Rules
  • Principles

• I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Police
  • Horror
  • Exorcist

• In a changing world, some jobs disappear and new ones are created. That's how it has been for hundreds of years. When jobs disappear, the vast majority is not because of global trade, but because of technical advances, robotization and so on. So, we - and in particular, EU member states - have to invest more in training and education so that people will have new opportunities if their jobs are cut. The EU can also better utilize its investment and social funds to protect its citizens from swift changes.

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Gods
  • Side
  • Pray For Me

• Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

  

  Confucius
  • Respect
  • Possible
  • Gods