Confucius Quotes
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Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.
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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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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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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.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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The funniest people are the saddest once.
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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
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An angry person is always full of poison.
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
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One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
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Sincerity is the way of heaven.