Confucius Quotes
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
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Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.
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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.
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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
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I never really said all those things I said.
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When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.
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He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.