"He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him"
Read quote
9 likes
Quote collection
Confucius quotes (page 27 of 46)
904 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone."
Read quote
9 likes
"Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers."
Read quote
9 likes
"On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words."
Read quote
9 likes
"If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man."
Read quote
9 likes
"I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent."
Read quote
9 likes
"Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them."
Read quote
9 likes
"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
Read quote
9 likes
"He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser."
Read quote
9 likes
"Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents."
Read quote
9 likes
"A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones."
Read quote
9 likes
"A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet."
Read quote
9 likes
"When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it."
Read quote
9 likes
"There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous."
Read quote
9 likes
"A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace."
Read quote
9 likes
"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire."
Read quote
9 likes
"Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it."
Read quote
9 likes
"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up."
Read quote
9 likes
"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."
Read quote
9 likes
"How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them."
Read quote
9 likes