Confucius Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Confucius
Confucius Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11)
(Analects 2.11)
If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
There is one single thread binding my way together ... the way of the Master consists in doing one's best ... that is all.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.