Confucius Quotes - Page 12

• When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

  Confucius

  Ignorant, Knows

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• A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Excellence

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• To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Proud, Murmuring

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, True Friend, Knowledge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

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  Anxiety, Spirituality, Ashamed

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• Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

  Confucius

  Leader, Path

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• A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

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  Men, Anxiety, Superior Man

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• Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

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  Settling, Hundred, Difficulty

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• The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

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  Prejudice, Four, Masters

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• When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

  Confucius

  Self, Endeavor, Worthy

  As quoted in "Top 100 Power Verbs" by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, (p. 170), June 20, 2013.

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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

  Confucius

  Knowing, Cowardice, Worst

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• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.

  Confucius

  Sadness, Men, Self

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• A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Ruthlessness

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• The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

  Confucius

  People, Understanding, May

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

  Confucius

  Nature, Culture, Pedants

  "Lun Yü".

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• In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

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  Gentleman, World, Sides

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

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  Integrity, No Friends, Faults

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• A youth is to be regarded with respect.

  Confucius

  Youth

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.172

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• The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

  Confucius

  Jobs, Men, He Man

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• One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

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  Slave, Dedicated, Thousand

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• Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

  Confucius

  Love, Strong, Learning

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• If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

  Confucius

  Men, Worry, Confucianism

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• The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

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  People, Good People, Demand

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