“There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.”
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Famous Confucius Quotes
“We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.”
“Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.”
“Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.”
Source: Lun Yü
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Source: The Analects
“Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.”
“Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.”
Source: The Analects
“Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]”
Source: The Analects
Source: Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean
“What is necessary is to rectify names.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability”
“The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”
“To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.”
Source: Lunyu
“Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”
“An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.”
“There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.”
“Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.”
“Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.”
“In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.”
Source: 论语
“To think twice is quite enough.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius