Confucius Quotes
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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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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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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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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
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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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Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.
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Never seek illicit wealth.
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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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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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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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Justice for All in the World.
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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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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.