Confucius Quotes - Page 13

• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

  Confucius

  Stars, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

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  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

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  Teacher, Teaching, May

  Confucius (2016). “Chinese Literature”, p.13, Confucius

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• There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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  Wise, Strong, Men

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• The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

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  Men, Purpose, Way

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• Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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  Essence, Mind, Attention

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• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

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  Men, Thinking, Small Acts

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• In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

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  Men, Sake, Study

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• From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

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  Pearls, Sand, Grains Of Sand

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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  Moving, Men, Differences

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• I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do.

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  Used, Said

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• Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

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  Educational, Lying, Teaching

  "The wisdom of Confucius".

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• What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

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  Chinese, Wish

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• Men of principle are sure to be bold,
  but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

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  Men, Principles, May

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
  The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

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  Men, Gentleman, Sides

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

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  Giving, Three, Want

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• Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

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  Law, Foundation, Hot

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• The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

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  Men, Justice, Comfort

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• There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

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  Life, Passion, Men

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• The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

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  Inspirational, Men, Easy

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• An angry man is full of poison.

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  Anger, Men, Angry Man

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• There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

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  Friendship, Men, Air

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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  Eye, Bigger, Stomach

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• The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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  Heart, Character, Men

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• A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

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  Persistence, Men, Physicians

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