Confucius Quotes
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
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To think twice is quite enough.
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I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!
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Learning without thought is labour lost.
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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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A picture is poem without words.
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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Behind every smile there's teeth.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
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All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.