Confucius Quotes
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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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An angry person is always full of poison.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
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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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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
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The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
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When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect.
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
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Return good for good; return evil with justice.
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When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.