Confucius Quotes
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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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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If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
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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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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
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When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them.
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See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
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There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
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The whole end of speech is to be understood.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?