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Famous Confucius Quotes
“Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.”
“The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.”
Source: Lunyu
“Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
Source: Lunyu
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments”
“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
Source: The Analects
“True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.”
“Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.”
Source: Lun Yü
“Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.”
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
“Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.”
“Words are the voice of the heart.”
Source: The Essential Analects: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
“A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Source: 论语
“To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?”
Source: Lun Yü
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.”
Source: A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.”
“A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.”
Source: Lun Yü
“The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.”
Source: Lun Yü
“If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?”
Source: Lun Yü
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius