Confucius Quotes
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.
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Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
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The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.