Confucius Quotes
-
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
-
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
-
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
-
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
-
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
-
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.
-
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
-
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.
-
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
-
There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.
-
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
-
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
-
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.
-
Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
-
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
-
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.
-
The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.
-
Those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.
-
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
-
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
-
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
-
It is better to play than do nothing.
-
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
-
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.