Confucius Quotes
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Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
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There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
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I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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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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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
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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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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
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A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
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With a heavy load and a long journey.
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
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The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
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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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It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.