Confucius Quotes
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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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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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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
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Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use 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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He who sling mud, lose ground.
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As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
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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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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
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A picture is poem without words.
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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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To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
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When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.
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At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin