Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
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Famous Confucius Quotes
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
Source: The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.”
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Source: The Analects
Source: Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Source: The Analects
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Source: Confucian Analects
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”
Source: The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism
Source: The Analects
“Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide