Confucius Quotes
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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
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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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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
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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 study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
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The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
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A picture is poem without words.
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When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."
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A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.