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Famous Confucius Quotes
“Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.”
Source: The Analects
“To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.”
“Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.”
Source: Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors”
Source: The Analects
Source: Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions