Confucius Quotes - Page 14

• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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  Justice, Doe, Faults

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

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

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  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

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  Study, Loses

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• There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

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  Mean, Men, Virtuous

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• To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

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  Taoism, Needs, Tao

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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  Money, Business, Philosophical

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

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  Men, Profound, World

  Analects ch. 4, v. 10 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

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  Passion, Doors, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

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  Law, Punishment, People

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

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  Being Strong, Struggle, Character

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• Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

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  Compassion, Treats, Treated

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• The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

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  Life, Education, Learning

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• Future generation is the most important thing.

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  Important, Generations, Future Generation

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Happy New Year

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• If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

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  Deeds, Language, Accomplished

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• Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

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  Baseball, Men, Balls

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

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  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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  Wisdom, Art, People

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• It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Work

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

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  Wise, Men, Waste

  "Lun yü in Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil".

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• The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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  Character, Men, Partisans

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