Confucius Quotes
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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
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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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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
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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.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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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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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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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
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Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.
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Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk.
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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
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He who sling mud, lose ground.
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If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.